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Ye I kinda get you. 2020 quarantine phase and 2022(for personal reasons) phase were the best and worst. I loved having the bits of communication squeezed out of my peers online, but I’ve been struggling with parasocial relationships(kinda?) ever since. Every new chapter of my life I open, constantly ends with me obsessing with one or another person that I wanna befriend. Except instead of asking to hang out irl, I try to impress them via socials, since throughout my teenage-hood I was isolated for one reason or another T_T So my page looks overly-curated oftentimes, and you can tell exactly when the switch happens, haha

@blurynn

May 30, 2025

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@melodramaticibrahim

I remember one time a new guy came to our school and i really wanted to befriend him because he is a nerd and i am too so it felt like we’d understand each other but i never really went up to him and talked because i was scared or nervous so id just smile at him sometimes , idk why i was trying to lure him into talking to me but anyways i did end up talking to him and we’re not really that close we talk from time to time but that inconsistency might just be because im introverted so i don’t always seek someone to talk to

May 30, 2025

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