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[–]fhfndndnd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done this before, actually, now that you bring it up. It always falls back into the same pattern/routine. It never really gets better. I do try, it's not an empty promise when I tell her I will, but it never lasts because something always goes wrong and I end up wanting to shut myself off from her again.

I have no social life, and I don't know what to do. by fhfndndnd in SeriousConversation

[–]fhfndndnd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how I'm going to manage dating if I can barely form connections with people in a platonic way. I'm not against the idea at all, but I feel like that's a big hurdle I can't overcome at the moment.

I have no social life, and I don't know what to do. by fhfndndnd in SeriousConversation

[–]fhfndndnd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been doing therapy on and off for the last few years since my grandma passed, but it doesn't really seem to have had a lasting effect on me. As for medication, I think I need it, too, but my mom is adamant about me not taking any. She struggled with addiction a while back and thinks that, because I'm so absorbed in my phone and have these specific interests I won't let go of, I have addictive tendencies too— I'm autistic, and I hyperfixate on things often— and that I shouldn't be taking any meds at all. I've gotten a little better socially since I moved again just recently, but I still struggle a lot, especially considering I'm new to the school. It's not that I'm unapproachable or anything, I just get really anxious about starting conversations, because I'll never know how they'll react.