social abuse recurring was still high if i tried to make friends again<br><br>ppl put a lot of suspended disbelief in the concept of therapy here, choosing to not think too hard about what a therapist can do. w/o prospects, u have no goals to be conditioned into working towards

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i’ve lately had the feeling that i’m being dragged away from the fire by the passage of time. every feeling i have makes less and less sense to outsiders. the pain is erased, etc. etc.

but i think often i care too much about normal ppl’s bullshit and frame things thru it [1/15]

6/10/2024, 12:20:03 AM

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but it’s rly not worth caring about

in truth, firstly, time doesn’t heal. i can only rly imagine it would if either your abuser leaves, u have some believable prospect for a better life, or if your trauma is some bs u made up

the way this actually works isn’t hard to understand

6/10/2024, 12:20:03 AM

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it’s been 17 months i think since i took the fatal blow off sdll from luke’s retracted disappearance and moderately-successful attempt to flip the table socially on me in sms. the takeaways from that were (1) he will never go away, (2) he will never be sorry and (3) the risk of

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social abuse recurring was still high if i tried to make friends again

ppl put a lot of suspended disbelief in the concept of therapy here, choosing to not think too hard about what a therapist can do. w/o prospects, u have no goals to be conditioned into working towards

6/10/2024, 12:20:05 AM

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u can’t deny the reality of the conditions i am subjected to by your decisions, simply by offloading responsibility onto a hypothetical “therapist”. same with getting a job. ppl project their own circumstances onto me and then blame me for not helping myself

6/10/2024, 12:20:05 AM

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the classic “sex isn’t hard to come by” quote comes to mind

and the other side of it is, why *would* time heal? i stopped managing my social risk r.e. luke, stopped paying attention, but that doesn’t mean i forgot. i reasonably assume things are as bad as they could be

6/10/2024, 12:20:06 AM

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as bad as the evidence so far suggests they are. when i do forget then my dreams remind me. this is how it feels most days https://youtu.be/XX4EpkR-Sp4

when i called it a fatal blow, what i meant was it condensed the flowchart into a single outcome that’s been playing out since

6/10/2024, 12:20:07 AM

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it’s a linear decline – at some point i ended my speedrunning career, closed out my projects, some point i stopped replying to irl friends, stopped going outside w/ other ppl (since, like, january?)

was maybe a bit too early for that but idk how much stuff i have left to finish

6/10/2024, 12:20:08 AM

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the second major point is that in truth there is no real difference between living and dying in this situation. it’s been hard for me to get away from these americans’ obsessions w/ this point, being called manipulative for talking about suicide

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but like, all talking about it does is trigger their taboo response/fear of god, making them feel concrete guilt for suffering i am enduring *either way*. all this does is incentivise ppl to kill themselves to make sure others actually *feel* it. which i find extremely cringe

6/10/2024, 12:20:09 AM

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in reality, whether it happens or not is determined by things largely unrelated to the trauma/suffering itself, like your own psychology and coping mechs. i would be unsurprised if i kept living like this for decades. it doesn’t mean “it wasn’t abuse” lol, rather—

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my corporeal presence gives them more suspended disbelief, that maybe in a decade i’ll recover, or it’s my fault for not getting a job etc. they will outright declare im getting over it lol. the instinct to plause away guilt is strong, and biologically coded to depend on whether

6/10/2024, 12:20:11 AM

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death happened or not

which is why, fair play, as time passes i get a deeper respect for the strategy luke went with here, how effectively he achieved his goal and how nicely it plays with human nature

it’s not sad really to lose survival of the fittest; it’s only natural

6/10/2024, 12:20:11 AM

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part of me always thinks wouldn’t it be easier to just not be an abuser, or if u start down that path, make amends rather than hard committing

but like i don’t see the benefit for him to do that at all; it’s just a maladaptive instinct i was projecting and got selected out over

6/10/2024, 12:20:12 AM

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anyway i fancied writing that to make it a little harder to deny my experience

my life update is i’ve spent 2 months cleaning up a lifetime of personal digital stuff (photos etc). i know it amounts to nothing but ocd is an underrated survival instinct lol [15/15]

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