[ SECRET POST #2300 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2300 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 093 secrets from Secret Submission Post #329.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Am I the devil's advocate, here, or just the middle road?

[(Anonymous)]

To, like, everyone:

Can we please stop jumping to conclusions about other people's lives based on only one or two details? Please?

As one of the commenters above, this is actually kind of what I was trying to say (and I think I might have said, actually). It's possible that OP's friend has an actual problem, but based only on the information we have, there isn't cause to assume that. If there's more going on that the OP chose not to mention for some reason, then talk of the friend's interests being "unhealthy" might be warranted, but the only thing OP actually presented as an example of the friend's behavior was that they were "annoying" and talking about things OP isn't interested in. Based on those details, I'm surprised at the way everyone is jumping to the conclusion that the friend's behavior is something pathological.

Re: Am I the devil's advocate, here, or just the middle road?

[(Anonymous)]

No, we have three pieces of information - the two you said, and the fact that OP thinks that it is a real problem. Which isn't conclusive, but it's an important factor, I think.

Re: Am I the devil's advocate, here, or just the middle road?

[nyxelestia]

To be fair, 600x600 px isn't really all that much room to go into details, especially if you don't want the secret to turn into a giant wall of text. The stuff in the secret is a pretty decent summary for either direction.

Though personally, when I read "I told her it's annoying, and that she's saying weird stuff, but she won't listen", I assumed OP meant they were concerned about the friend's inability to realize that the person they are conversing with is either bored or even uncomfortable with what she is talking about, not that the OP themself was annoyed.

This is a problem I've actually encountered a lot in RL - people will get so deeply involved with something, they start to fail to realize that the people around them are uninterested or uncomfortable. Most of the time, just bringing it to their attention gets them to adjust, but I've also seen those who completely fail to comprehend that the rest of us aren't interested in what they are talking about or doing.

I'm in college so I mostly interact with these people at school, but this behavior does genuinely make me worry about how they are going to function in the 'real' world - especially since most of them also seem to have a lot of trouble with grades and such, which suggests that their obsession with fandom is eating into real-life obligations like schoolwork (which does not bode well for their ability to handle an actual job down the road). :(