I have noticed over the last few years that my hodge-podge of rural Midwestern accents have started getting more prominent in increased social isolation after COVID. And this is after kind of working to have a more "neutral" and professional accent for work and there being things that I say that nominally native English speakers (Brits, Californians, etc.) had a hard time understanding. Just wondering if other people here noticed similar things with themselves.
I went completely insane for a hot minute there and since recovered.
I no longer do things or have fun
I just drink in a surly manner while working on projects I have begun to hate
Half of hexbear seems to have had a my little pony tulpa it seems. Deeply concerning.
The "lockdowns" (for lack of a better term, because they certainly weren't actual lockdowns) hit right as I was beginning to break out of my social isolation caused by a myriad of mental maladies and I haven't ever really recovered :doomer:
Same! I was single for the first time since high school, and I had become a god damn social butterfly. I was going out like 3-4 nights a week, constantly doing new stuff. Then the pandemic said “Get back in your shell!!”
I can still be normal with crushes externally, internally oof social anxiety. I miss being able to be more normal
I stopped binge drinking as much, now I'm a lightweight when I go out with my old friends.
I was unemployed for a whole year and while I kept drinking heavily for the first few months, I eventually used all my free time to learn something and managed to get a job in it. So my whole experience is definitely not the norm
I'm still underpaid, but at least now I just sit at a desk in an old building with 8 other dudes and design the internet
At first I regressed my accent a little, but nowadays I mostly just hiss and growl.
not really, i was already isolated because american culture is terrible and atomized
I regressed to using the internet too much. Pre-covid I was becoming a pro at grass-touching.
I don't have as much social anxiety as much as I can rock a conversation for the first 30 seconds, then I dead-end and have nothing to say. Small talk is a lot harder when you're never up to something.
i feel like the progress I made on my social anxiety before the pandemic was mostly undone. like i can get along mostly fine but as the world has gotten more isolated post-lockdowns it feels harder to have normal interactions in the same way, ya know?
No, Goblin Mode is new territory for me.
Though I suppose I did get back into metal and also I allowed Homestar Runner to alter my vocabulary.
I had just moved across the country and was rebuilding an old friend group while building new friendships with comrades in 2019. Everything kinda fell apart and I haven’t been able to get back into building communism, only depression.
