>>7794279>self-projected conclusionWhat do you mean by "self-projected"? I assure you I am not fooling myself into believing that period of my life was worse than what it was.
>I'm sorry for rambling with no information, I just got that funky vibe from your post.Well, what happened is that my family left the community I was born in for economic regions, and moved to the other side of the country - and America is a big country. My mother's parents came to live with us, and taking care of them was a full-time job. My sister was also used to being the center of attention, and she didn't fit in well at the new school, she came home every day crying. All this meant there was almost no time for me. Furthermore, since my father had recently died some years prior, Mom was overloaded with legal paperwork and felt she had to replace his job - so she tried to push me about grades to the point that every time I saw her she'd talk to me in an upset tone about how my grades were not good enough, even though I had a B average at the time. What this all led to was me being incredibly isolated and depressed. My family had fallen apart, I was uprooted from my old community (even if that community was shit at least I knew them), and I didn't fit in at all with my new surroundings. I was afraid every morning to get out of bed, there was nothing to get up for.
The situation improved after I went to college, I'm on much better terms with mom now, but what really got me out of this was 4chan. Even if it's just words and images on a screen, when I'm here I don't feel so alone. I can laugh, and laughter absolutely dispels fear. But reliance on a website to preserve my sanity feels fragile. If anything happens so that I can't access this site, or if stress from my current life becomes extreme enough that 4chan isn't enough to dispel it, I'm screwed. I want to have a plan to run away if so.
>>7794309are there really any animals out there in antarctica to compete with them?
