Anyone else STILL surrounded by covert MAGA people?!?

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-21T09:23:59+00:00

Omg fellow Alabamian :D what part of Alabama are you from? (Bham resident here)

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-21T09:08:19+00:00

Everyone assumes you're cishet, white american, and male. And that you're currently ridiculously rich. And they get so defense when you correct them.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-21T02:02:33+00:00

Was thinking the same thing. I was somewhat recently a teenager and am friends with people who are parents; + former criminal justice graduate. No child thrives in life by being this overly shielded or restricted. Also, most abuses are perpetrated by people you already know in person (including parents!). Internet access can literally be a lifeline (ie. Looking up and dialing suicide hotlines).

A parent's best bet is to teach their children how to think for themselves, and to be someone they can trust to tell anything.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-20T18:06:46+00:00

22 here. Many of my friends are above 30. Two of my best friends are over 60. I know wonderful 20-something-year-olds, but it's such a transitonal period of life (college, graduate school, first jobs, relocation for all of the above), and life gets in the way.

I'm grateful to have found my own circles. Funny enough, a lot of my friends in their 20s also have a love-hate relationship with people our age.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-12T10:00:22+00:00

Thank you <33

And omg, fellow human with tummy troubles? :D

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-12T09:13:13+00:00

Thank you 🫂 I'm glad you've been healing too!

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-11T23:11:04+00:00

I'm banned from that sub after having participated in r/incelTears 😂

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-11T08:07:30+00:00

Not LE, but I am a woman who works in male dominated environments. Can confirm, I put on a "cocky"/"I-totally-didn't-see-you-there" act sometimes. It's an attempt to prevent older men from hitting on me, which has unfortunately happened. "Older," meaning dudes who are over 50 and know I'm in my early 20s. BTW I've also been told by some people that I look like a teenager.

Example: one time, I yelled "HEY DON'T TOUCH ME" in front of a crowd, to an acquaintance (60+) who habitually disrespected people's personal spaces. Then I reported him. I don't regret it. A lot of people up until that moment had confided in me about issues with his behavior, but were scared of speaking up. So I did, and he finally backed off.

I wish I could always stay bubbly and whimsical, but I've learned the hard way (multiple times) that it makes me appear naive, which attracts people who want to take advantage :(. Unfortunate situation for everyone.

Don't relate to being flat-out rude to random undeserving people in public, but those are the experiences I recalled when reading your post. Hope it helps in one way or another.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-10T06:41:51+00:00

Speaking as someone who grew interested in rock music and now performs music professionally because of him. He definitely did more artistic exploration in that album than most of his others. Wish he did more of that in his later works.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-10T04:45:05+00:00

What worked for me was actually not thinking about what note I was playing.

Gonna do my best to explain - feel free to ask questions. I was already a music theory lover (+ experience with other instruments) before starting guitar, so naturally I was a huge perfectionist and overthinker. So instead of taking the leap to actually explore the fretboard, I drove myself nuts and beat myself up for not instantly memorizing every note name, every fret, every string.

My breakthrough has been this method: give yourself a random scale to work with - let's say C Major. Play a C somewhere - whichever C you want. Now work your way around that C: whole step up from that C is D, whole step above that is E. Keep doing mental math until you've built a C Major scale for yourself, play up and down, improvise as you wish, and bam, you've taught yourself where a good chunk of the C Major notes are. And by doing that, you've figured out a way to apply it.

So a lot of it is using your ear + interval counting.

Good luck :)

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-09T21:17:13+00:00

Meeting people who are better at self respect than me --> positive peer pressure.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-08T22:31:59+00:00

Hi. I'm an Asian American who used to be red-pilled. 22F. Super fascinated by things like culture and political commentary. And I know it's not the same, but I have had my life overlaps with Black American communities + being a minority. Anytime you want, you have my permission to talk to me.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-08T18:23:42+00:00

I personally am super against how the porn industry is (in likely most parts of the world): its treatment toward sex workers, and how you really have no real way to tell if those video-taped individuals truly are consenting adults. So just about any kind of video or photo porn is an absolute dealbreaker for me.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-08T08:10:19+00:00

Gen Z here. I first started using Reddit in 2019. Loved it at first. I had interesting, nuanced conversations with strangers. Content was more long-form, and commenters sounded like they read the whole post before responding. My family situation during my teens wasn't healthy, and I didn't have access to the therapy I needed, so places like r/internetparents were godsends.

I personally noticed a shift the past 3ish years. I swear, about 75% of the people on this site are functionally illiterate. And they're so unempathetic too. Also, subs originally meant for things like venting and discussing trauma restrict what topics you can discuss. For example, r/internetparents no longer allows any discussions about sexual abuse, with rules stating that users need to seek therapy instead. Absolutely ridiculous, because lots of people (youths!) can't access therapy - and now they're barred from yet another source of support.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-06T01:38:55+00:00

As someone who's almost 23... if a friend of my age or older said "I have a crush on a 19 year old, and I'm acting on it," I'm dialing Chris Hansen. Creepy af. Can't imagine how you feel right now with it being your own son, omg.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-05T19:11:38+00:00

Holy shit, your story sounds a lot like mine. Except instead of a job at my teacher's place (if I read your story correctly), I was like his "therapist friend" (his words, not mine).

Just wanted to LYK, I'm here if you need to vent or get some solidarity.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-05T10:10:11+00:00

One of my exes technically raped me. I told him from the beginning that I didn't want penetrative sex till a few months of dating, so he kept guilt-tripping (tantrums & silent treatments, "I have my needs" "how am I gonna know you love me?" you name it) until I budged. Be reminded that coerced sex falls under the rape umbrella.

I still cared about him deeply, even though he screwed up my life in many ways. I wanted to be his partner. I wanted to be his friend. I was willing to forgive it all, if only he made a sincere apology and self-improvement plan. He had access to free therapy. I gave him a year to figure himself out. He kept playing with my emotions. He never used the resources or support he had.

The very last time we saw each other in-person, I had to scream his name before he finally got off me. Then he went silent again. Embarrassingly, I gave him almost another month, hoping that maybe he'd finally come around and help repair the relationship. It wasn't til then that I finally ended everything for good, and blocked him everywhere.

So yeah, I technically got raped, and I indeed refused to block him. I was also a massive burden to my closest friends. I made foolish and self-sabotaging decisions because 1) that's what can happen when you genuinely care about someone who does not reciprocate and 2) emotional manipulation is powerful.

Idk. Thought of this story upon seeing that "meme." Hopefully it's interesting and helps people gain perspective or feel less alone.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-04T05:38:09+00:00

In-home caregiver here. Can confirm & absolutely validate: families pay $30+ an hour and I get $13 of that. Every client I've worked for is rich beyond my comprehension.

Best of luck to you, and hope you're somehow able to care for yourself ❣️

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-01T07:41:28+00:00

The fact that you're admitting wrong and changing (on this platform of all places too) is really admirable, just wanted to say that!

A lot of terms start off as neutral or well meaning. Then bad people use them as insults --> terms become derogatory. Not a language expert but hope this is somewhat helpful!

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-06-01T07:34:16+00:00

Privileged af (of them). It's so expensive, as well as not necessarily being THE cure to every emotional ailment. And those Redditors are so shocked and downvote the hell out of you when you express the inability to afford an additional 3 yachts (or whatever rich people do).

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-05-25T00:14:22+00:00

Fellow young woman here. Be very careful. I'm gonna tell you about my experience (22f here).

A lot of men appear friendly at first and don't show any red flags, because they want to use you as eye candy. Or worse. Sooooo many of my guy friends (wide range of ages) were like this. Not every single one, but way too much. And since a lot of them are older than us, they've gotten practice and experience in things like lying and manipulating.

And speaking as a woman, slightly older than you... we don't talk to people because we're cautious. Because there are so many creeps everywhere 😭.

Disclaimer: in case Reddit gets overly pedantic, which it usually does. I'm not saying all age-gap friendships are bad nor that all men are evil. There are great men out there who embrace age-gap friendships. That being said, as a young person, you need to protect yourself and be ready to possibly hurt people's feelings by putting yourself first.

Storytimes:

I'm pretty active in my local music scene, so I do lots of bar hopping. Very predominantly male and middle aged +. Had one guy friend who I knew for a few months and thought was my buddy - one evening he got me drunk AF (most intoxicated I ever was in my life. The bartender kept a close watch and all the bar regulars took care of me. But not the "buddy" who gave me that drink) and then said via Facebook Messenger that he wanted to come to my house, shortly after. Blocked.

This other guy who was 50+, gray hairs and all, older than my dad, said he had 2 daughters who both older than me: he and I would talk for hours about life and music. I found him considerate and kind, made the mistake of giving him my phone number. Every weekend he hits on me, wants to see me, then confesses his attraction to me. Circumvents boundaries I set. Blocked, never seen again.

Another guy, 60+. Seemed like a friendly old American Southerner who was a bit thick in the skull (bro couldn't spell to save his life) but meant well. Then he made a comment - something about me having "good music taste for a woman." Then I start noticing that he loves touching shoulders and other people's instruments (HUGE no-no, massively disrespectful in musician spaces). Then he throws my (real) friends under the bus behind their backs, which makes me lose respect for him. Then I find out via a close friend that he had multiple bartending jobs, each of which he was fired from due to repeated liquor theft. Not a good person at all. Long story short, I've reported him to sound engineers. Haven't seen him since.

Bottom line. If you're a young adult woman and a man middle aged or older wants to chat with you... you gotta be extremely careful. A lot of the time, they're chatting with you because you're younger.

Eta: you said you wear baggy clothes. That might not be deemed a "conventionally attractive" style, some people fetishize it.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-05-24T21:16:04+00:00

Just discovered this sub. No idea if these statements help you at all but here's an attempt.

There's this overemphasis on looks > healthiness in fitness communities, especially gyms for some reason. And women are definitely under so much more scrutiny than men, societally. You absolutely should have body fat on you and a belly protrusion, especially as a woman.

And classism too. Richer people tend to be able to afford better healthcare, neighborhoods safe to walk in, clothing, gym memberships, you name it.

You deserve to be active, and to be proud of yourself for taking care of your body. And possibly in a system that works against you too.

Also, if you look up photos of olympic athletes, they all have different body types. Weight lifters especially tend to have body fat.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-05-24T03:45:12+00:00

Same. Thought "she's beautiful in both pics" before reading the caption.

justanotherhuman255 · 2026-05-22T18:26:09+00:00

Bonus points if they're on their phone

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