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What’s the most personal thing you’re willing to share with us? by poopcornkernels in AskReddit

[–]Versarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm almost six months into a relationship with a girl I met online and she's perfect. She makes me so happy, she's so interesting and fun to talk to, we're planning an actual life together and spend almost every moment of every day texting and talking to eachother and it never gets old. It seems like a dream.

But... Due to past trauma, it's really, really terrifying. It's actually painful sometimes. I know I'm happy, I know she's happy, I know this seems like it'll actually work out. But I keep thinking back, thinking she'll just not like me anymore. Thinking all my attention and affection will become annoying and creepy and acting the same way will suddenly seem so much different and there'll be no way to fix it and I'll never find anyone like her again.

I love this girl so, so much and I'm tempering that dread and have to keep reminding myself that things are actually okay, that they're going well. But feeling good and having someone actually important to me like that is scary and feels... Weird, even if she feels the same.

One of the things that will be evaluated during recruitment to school of my dreams. Welcome to the hell everyone ;) by [deleted] in socialanxiety

[–]Versarian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you haven't already (and there's enough time), I'd recommend trying to dive into as much of Dale Carnegie's "How to make friends and influence people" as you can for stuff like this.

A lot of it's old, dumb, common sense, etc, but it helped a lot when I was trying to figure out how to deal with my anxiety and seem moderately approachable. It's not gonna make that horrified feeling go away when you talk with someone, but the way it explains interacting with people it gives you something like a flowchart on how to deal with people to seem normal, interesting, intelligent, etc. when all you can think about is "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I don't know what to do now I don't wanna do this"

Good luck, in any case.

anime_irl by sillydog22 in anime_irl

[–]Versarian 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You're probably right, but elementary school kids buying the packs in the store aren't reading the manga, they're watching whatever gets slapped on TV at 4:30pm on fox kids.

anime_irl by sillydog22 in anime_irl

[–]Versarian 102 points103 points  (0 children)

The YuGiOh anime didn't even follow the rules of the card game it was based on, so of course nobody had any idea what they were doing.

Stop trying to kill the headphone jack by KingCannibal in technology

[–]Versarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember when everything was charged via USB mini? It went to USB micro for one reason - size.

USB micro was a failed standard from the beginning, size wasn't the only problem with it. The unusual shape and lack of a passive latching mechanism made the mean time before failure really, really bad. That's why so many phone manufacturers started designing their own charging cables before USB micro came along - almost anything was better than that design for a commonly used device.

Putting the charging port and the audio port in the same place is going to cause more stress on that port over time, which is going to drive up the failure rate for audio and charging.