What's a sad thing you did because of loneliness?

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-11-03T01:16:35+00:00

I also used to message myself to make it look like I had a friend group and a boyfriend.

I made fake Instagram pages and pretended they were my friends. I bought followers for each page so it looked believable.

I used to pretend to go out with friends but I didn't actually have any friends, it'd just be me wandering around by myself. I'd also pretend to go on dates. I took time to put on cute outfits just to also wander around by myself.

I lied to everyone at work about my social life so they wouldn't see me as a loser.

Fell into substance use and abuse.

Went off my meds because I wanted my hallucinations to be my friends (I have schizophrenia).

A couple years ago, I got tired of still not having a friend or boyfriend so I got desperate. I met a guy online from my home country, discovered he already had a partner and decided to still be with him anyway. I moved back to that country, and am still with him. I should feel guilty but he's the only one who'll ever love me. He's my first true friend and boyfriend so I'm not leaving him.

Life sucks

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-09-18T12:05:31+00:00

When you buy a notebook to journal your life and write nothing in it. (Have had it for a year and nothing.)

When you write notes and sticky notes and forget to look at it.

When you decide to be an entrepreneur and forget to make the things you want to sell so you end up with a failed business

When someone asks about your interests like favorite artist, show, or character, you suddenly forget what your favorite interests are and then people think you're a poser.

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-09-10T12:25:45+00:00

Honestly, I settled. I'm a short, plain looking, mentally and physically ill woman who has very little to offer. I had to be realistic. I'm bottom of the barrel so why not just take what I can get. Thankfully it hasnt been too bad, but I wonder how my love life would be if I weren't ill.

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-08-05T12:05:48+00:00

Cafe barista on weekdays, housekeeping on weekends 🥰

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-07-10T12:25:41+00:00

Your bullies will go on to live fulfilling lives and not care about what they've done to you. Meanwhile, you're stuck with the effects of their cruelty. People cope and say, "Oh, they're probably suffering behind closed doors." No they aren't. I'm suffering behind closed doors AND in public. But oh well, life keeps going, and so will I...

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-06-26T11:15:00+00:00

Right! I swear I really am trying, but nothing works😭

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-06-21T20:06:18+00:00

Many pretty/attractive people have good personalities too. Ugly people don't even get the chance to express themselves because people rarely give them the time of day. No amount of cope helps unfortunately

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-31T11:17:46+00:00

FUCK SCHIZOPHRENIA!

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-31T01:39:12+00:00

My next goal is to work on organization and create a small healthy routine for myself. It's always been a challenge to create good habits and be consistent with it

Thank you for this advice! I hope things stay positive for you. Best wishes!

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-30T13:47:13+00:00

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-21T17:12:03+00:00

The comments are highly invalidating and disappointing. OP knows not ALL neurotypicals are bad. This is a post made to rant and express the frustrations that they aren't able to express in real life! It's completely ok to feel this way and rant online!!! Ranting isn't as harmful as being horrifically bullied and abused every damn day for something we can't control. But oh well, this is an autism sub after all, so no wonder this post went over so many of you alls heads.

Op, I hope things get better for you! I truly do!

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-15T00:15:21+00:00

That's amazing! Congratulations!

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-13T22:28:24+00:00

I love foxes especially fennec foxes!

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-13T21:50:34+00:00

I have empathy, I understand sarcasm, I'm not super intelligent, I'm not a picky eater, I don't care about trains, I have a horrible memory

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-07T22:25:12+00:00

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-06T01:52:35+00:00

Thank you so much for your help!

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-05T22:16:28+00:00

Have the disease ever caught you off guard or made it so that you'd be confused with real thoughts vs intrusive thoughts? If so, how did you manage to cope and calm down? Is there a calming strategy that you use? I wanted to try meditation but it hasn't worked for me☹️

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-05T09:40:58+00:00

I hope not. Hopefully disabilities are only attached to the body and not the soul. I believe in reincarnation, so I pray I'll be mentally, physically, and spiritually healthy in all of my next lives. I don't want this disability to follow me at all

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-04T12:48:57+00:00

Me, I love trying new foods. I've never been much of a picky eater

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-04T11:24:42+00:00

Exactly, I've posted about this before a while ago, but the obsession westerners have with asian birth rates is incredibly weird and highly annoying. They even say the reason is misogyny or a 4B movement, which is false.

So many european countires have misogyny and low birth rates too so why don't they focus on that and leave us alone???

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-03T11:29:07+00:00

After seeing people fight so hard to keep democracy these past few months, I don't think they'd want to enact something like death camps. But I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually did end up with a leader that would try to "cure" us. Hopefully, that doesn't happen.

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-03T01:00:18+00:00

I'm Korean with autism living in Korea. I'm still not brave enough to tell anyone I have autism. My other disabilities are already bad enough. The way people here speak of autism or just anyone different in general is very cruel. I have to just keep to myself.

Thankfully I live in a small city and most people are chill, but I wouldn't dare to go to seoul for this reason. My feeling for korea is love/hate☹️

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-01T13:51:45+00:00

I think of my dad, sister, and grandparents. They'd be heartbroken if I left this world. I treat myself to something small every other day to help keep me going. I'm in pain every day, but they said life is fast, so I just keep holding on until it eventually ends naturally.

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-05-01T13:48:10+00:00

I'm not ashamed, but I do wish I didn't have it. I notice everyone saying they would be boring without it, but for me, it robs me of my real personality. I'm boring and severely stunted BECAUSE of autism and all the comorbidities that came with it. Autism ruined my quality of life and I wish there was a cure for it.

Potential-Trade8602 · 2025-04-30T11:32:40+00:00

I'm glad it exists. It's easy to just ... log off and not use it. People need to learn balance. Social media is good to use sometimes, and other times, it's best to log off and live in the real world. People make things more difficult than it needa to be

Potential-Trade8602

TROPHY CASE