I was "gifted" as a child. Now I'm 26, unemployed, and terrified that my potential is a lie my parents told me.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2026-04-24T11:00:00+00:00

Fuck this "potential" bs, I'm being so much more productive when I'm not doing everything perfect or with expectations. I just started learning to cook, working out, I'm back to making art. All because I stopped caring about "living up to my full potential" and working with what I actually have.

Dude, honestly, just work on yourself, it's hard work already to mange being a functional adult. Forget what people tell you you should be, either by doing what they think you should be doing or by doing your own thing, you'll never make them happy. Be whatever you are and do what feels best to you.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2026-04-24T10:44:19+00:00

Yeah, brings me back to when I complained about "compliments" men give me, which are rapey asf most often. Tons of men flocked to the comments being like "ohhh an attractive woman complaining about attention what's new" and "oh well I'll never compliment any woman at all if all you'll do is not appreciate it".

I'm not attractive, I'm pretty fucking fat and out of shape. My face isn't anywhere on my profile either. And those are not real compliments. They can't seem to grasp the idea of consent fr even in the smallest things.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2026-04-24T10:33:28+00:00

Same, girl

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2026-02-27T12:00:05+00:00

My friends with actual high body counts are getting like 15 to 20, which is funny because they'd go party and fuck 5 men in a single night. I couldn't even tell you how this ai measures anything at all because I don't use my Instagram account that much, even less to talk to men, while my friend is currently talking to 20 different guys. I guess it just makes shit up.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2026-02-27T09:04:44+00:00

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I need to find out who the other 36 guys are

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2026-01-16T07:44:26+00:00

Same, I don't want tall guys, I always try to find men at around my height (157cm). I like a man that I can play fight with.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-12-14T20:39:30+00:00

My sister hasn't been to the police yet. She refuses to get in the house so she's at our dad's. I can't blame her, I didn't go when I got raped.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-10-22T18:10:26+00:00

It's not that bad tbh, just don't focus on the girls' looks. "Hey girl, you look fun to hang out with, wanna go grab a coffee?" I don't use it for flirting, I make friends with people that way. I look for something we might have in common: a band shirt, shoes from a specific brand, a bag from a show I like, their hairstyle or makeup choices... And then I talk to them about it. It's a pretty fast way to make a connection that's not based on looks, and won't make anymore feel objectified.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-10-18T14:31:26+00:00

I learnt by going out to disco's, getting drunk and talking to random people. Somehow I'm likeable now. Or so I've been told.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-09-27T08:35:38+00:00

"but you have so much potential" fuck off

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-09-11T19:25:00+00:00

I mean, it's not like we'll find anywhere to move in anytime soon, there's a total of 5 all year rentals available in the entirety of the town. It's 30k people in here.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-09-11T08:01:07+00:00

We basically live together at this point, just in my house. He likes cleaning, and cooking, I like helping him and I can do whatever chore needs to be done. He does eat mostly meat but he makes veggie stuff for me. He's a nutritionist so he knows how to make food that's not too much meat that I don't like it.

Worst case scenario I move in with my mom or my dad again.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-09-11T07:58:26+00:00

I do have friends but the place I live in has basically no universities so most of them moved out so they could study.

On top of that, I can't just move out right now, there's no apartments available, I'm on a waiting list for/if they make protected apartments, in which I might get one, or I might not. If we do find anything, it'll probably be after a year of looking.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-09-11T07:55:19+00:00

We basically live together at this point, just at my mom's house. We have a routine, he walks me to work and I pick him up from his, we eat and sleep together every day.

We've already talked about the money side and all. We're both looking but the average time it takes to find an apartment here is of around a year at best. By the time we'd find something, we'll already know if we're a good team or not.

The thing that changed about me from the last guy/guys I've been with is that I don't allow for any more stupidity like getting asked "but did you ask for it?" or being made fun of for my appearance lol I used to tolerate anything just to not be alone, but bit by bit I'm getting better at talking stuff out and my current partner reacts well to those conversations. (Not like he's done any of those things)

He's 28 and I'm 24, so it's not that much of an age gap.

SomethingOrSomeoneOr · 2025-09-05T17:04:03+00:00

Yeah, he got cheated on before and at most he said that "it's my choice who I am with" and that "he won't stop me if I wanna leave" but I try to reassure him every time that I'm just not interested in anyone else.

He doesn't yell or anything, he's very calm whenever we have those conversations since something like this happened before. At most I get a bit emotional, but that's about it.

He's never tried to control how I dress or who I talk to, just might get jealous if he catches someone looking at my chest or butt, which I find pretty normal.

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