[ SECRET POST #4334 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4334 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

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[cloudtrader]

I'm with you, except my grades didn't slip because of fandom/internet. I, too, wonder if I'd be better at socializing/networking if I'd actually done more of it in high school and college.

[syncing_feeling]

Same here, though I didn't have a huge choice due to being homeschooled and not allowed outside unaccompanied. Fandom was my only connection to the outside world and I made some awesome friends through it.

Edit: This was meant to be a reply to the topic, sorry. :(

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I'm glad I didn't grow up with the Internet.

[(Anonymous)]

The reality is for me that I'd still have pretty much the same psychological issues regardless.

[(Anonymous)]

I first had internet access in my second year of college. It hugely improved my life - I had very little social life IRL before that, and got some after via connecting with people at my school online! It was amazing to find other female geeks.

[(Anonymous)]

I was avoiding being social via books before the internet, so I highly doubt the internet hampered my social life any further, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I didn't have internet until college when I was already a mature student and it connected me with more people.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I first got regular internet access when I was ~17. Before then I pretty much just talked to no one. After that I at least talked to internet friends.

[(Anonymous)]

The time period when I wad most active in online fandom was actually a time when I had a much more active offline social life than I do now. The problem is, I got lucky and as I would move around for school, I kept becoming friends with very outgoing people who would gather a big friends group around us. But there came a point where I moved for a job and... didn't get the typical outgoing friend. I was on my own with friend-making and terrible at it. Meanwhile, I hadn't even bothered making close friends online because I had plenty of offline friends. Now I don't even know how you make friends online. The landscape has changed.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder this too - then I remembered that for a literal entire school year when I was 7 I refused to play at recess, preferring to sit under one specific tree (that I considered my friend) and tell stories to myself so I think... I’ve always been like this

(And I didn’t really get internet access at home until I was 12)

[(Anonymous)]

I’m the exact opposite. I think if the internet had been around when I was a teen that I would have had a much better social life and better grades. It wasn’t until I was in my mid 20s that it really became a thing and for the first time in my life I was able to connect with other people which is what also help me to begin working through my issues that kept me from socialising from a young age.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the opposite in that fandom (as it was then - this is 20 years ago now) kind of saved me. I look back on it in an appreciative way, but I don't think it would have gone the same way if I was a teenager now.

[type_wild]

I used to wonder about it back then. In retrospect, I'm actually pretty sure that I would've just been reading more books and drawing more, because the dysfunctions keeping me from having a social life where even worse before I found fandom, and they sure didn't drive me into being social then.

My only regret is probably that I could've been a better artist, heh.