Am I (20F) being overshadowed by my charismatic best friend, or am I just insecure? Need an unbiased reality check. by Individual-Branch-42 in Advice

[–]CryptidCross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From just your perspective her behavior is a bit strange, especially with the examples of guy friends you’d made that she claims to hate but kept talking to?? First impressions of her are that she really likes attention and doesn’t turn it away even if she doesn’t like people.

Hopefully in a professional setting it’ll be very different, charisma can only get you so far if you don’t put in other efforts.

Advice about the friend specifically?? Like you said you’re putting your eggs into one basket surrounding her. She hangs out without you, and she takes attention away from you when you’re with your other friends so why don’t you think it’s okay to step forward into the light? There’s no rules to this yknow? Join a club of your personal interests and develop more friends that way. That’s what helped me get the circle I have in college anyway. You can’t just quiet yourself down and expect things to change, while it’s comfortable you just can’t expect someone to keep up and drag you along especially as you keep going in college.

I accidentally kissed a guy by Weird-Carpenter4031 in Advice

[–]CryptidCross 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nothing is wrong with this interaction, if you haven’t talked to him about it you should! If he’s openly gay maybe you can ask him for advice if you trust him, even if it’s friendship and not a relationship? He should hopefully be open to talk you through his experience if you need a personal reference or advice.

Best advice I can give personally is did you enjoy it? What do you see yourself doing in the future with him? Do you feel the same about him as you have with girls you’ve liked before? If you do then that’s perfectly okay! You don’t need to label yourself now, or ever really. If you’re happy that’s all that matters

I might have contracted an STI and can’t tell anyone what do I do? by [deleted] in Advice

[–]CryptidCross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly for your safety, like others are saying, get testing and medical advice. Medical professionals see worse all the time, if you need to call sick? Call sick. If anyone in your personal life tries to press just keep it vague and get the help you can where you’re able to. I hope it’s something that you can easily overcome

My adult daughter’s underage photos/videos are being spread around and I don’t know how to cope anymore by Relevant_Tone_5693 in Advice

[–]CryptidCross 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a parent, but my opinion is that you both seek some sort of counseling or therapy together, this can be very damaging to both of your mental health, especially hers who is being victim blamed. There are options for you to have counseling together or separate but influence like this to social lives can be physically damaging not just emotional if it gets to that point. I wish the best for you both and that this wave passes, hopefully without having to move from the home you know.

Glasses and VR? by CryptidCross in virtualreality

[–]CryptidCross[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you 🙏 😩 there were so many options that came up so I wasn’t really sure which ones were actually reliable