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Feb. 6th, 2022 07:57 am
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feathersflySo this is a weird question, but there's a lot of weird people here so maybe some of you have answers.
Anybody else have problems reacting to normal situations because they haven't lived normal lives? Yeah, yeah, we're all well outside of normal, especially here, but I mean like all the way down to the bones of the basics. Like you don't know how to deal with birthdays because you've never celebrated yours before. (Specifically, in a world where that's an expected thing people do.) Or you're not sure how to care about people genuinely because you never had...relationships? You don't know how to deal with kids because you never had a childhood. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
I feel like I'm play-acting being a person a lot of the time because I never got the fundamentals. I know how to put on a good show, but I don't know how to be. There's got to be other people who were home sick the day the lesson on how to be a human being came up in the curriculum. So I want to know how those people deal with it.
[Hawks is intentionally writing slightly differently than he normally does (namely, actually using proper punctuation) to disguise himself ever so slightly.]
Anybody else have problems reacting to normal situations because they haven't lived normal lives? Yeah, yeah, we're all well outside of normal, especially here, but I mean like all the way down to the bones of the basics. Like you don't know how to deal with birthdays because you've never celebrated yours before. (Specifically, in a world where that's an expected thing people do.) Or you're not sure how to care about people genuinely because you never had...relationships? You don't know how to deal with kids because you never had a childhood. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
I feel like I'm play-acting being a person a lot of the time because I never got the fundamentals. I know how to put on a good show, but I don't know how to be. There's got to be other people who were home sick the day the lesson on how to be a human being came up in the curriculum. So I want to know how those people deal with it.
[Hawks is intentionally writing slightly differently than he normally does (namely, actually using proper punctuation) to disguise himself ever so slightly.]
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