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13 Jan 2014, 8:53 am

Yes, from about 4yrs old it was like everyone was leaving. I wanted everyone to stay behind but they kept developing. I realize now that it was emotional development, that they were growing up and I wasn't ready for that. Over the years I've come back through all of those years. Sometimes it felt like I was coming back through history of thousands of years of human development, like I was passing over the pyramids, then the dark ages, then 70s, 80s, 90s until the present day. I also have a sense of how old I am in emotional years, but it's hard to work out on a linear scale in that sense. God knows how old I am in that way now though.



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13 Jan 2014, 4:22 pm

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I feel like society is going along faster and faster and yet I'm unable to keep up with it. College application deadlines are fast approaching and I cannot cope with it. :(


I remember that feeling from when I was in high school. What ended up happening with me was I applied a little bit later and went to college at 19 but ended up having to leave due to severe bullying and becoming overwhelmed. College was not and still is not about being smart or getting good grades, like everything else in life it is just a big dumb social game and you are in trouble if you can't manage to keep up.

I am about 10 years older than you and I still haven't gotten a college degree because it has been very difficult for me to remain in a college program without being bullied a lot and struggling to socialize or keep up with lectures (I typically had to pull double duty study sessions to learn the course material because it seemed like every professor talked too fast or didn't teach with clarity). I tried college twice and now I am scared of trying it again in the future. I sometimes wonder how some other people here on WP managed to get through college...they must be higher functioning than me or something.

I am not trying to intimidate you about college, just saying that feeling of being 17 and feeling unable to cope with the idea that college is coming up and all the other students seem to be excited about it, but I would feel lost and scared...I can relate to that feeling very well. I hope you overcome it somehow and do well in college.



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13 Jan 2014, 4:32 pm

GivePeaceAChance wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Makar wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what will happen to us folks for whom the world has become way too fast and chaotic?


I think we have to take a step back from the world or deal with the emotional consequences of being constantly overwhelmed. (Anxiety, depression, extreme stress, meltdowns.)

but the point I was making was what if it resulted in homelessness and oblivion?


it did at one point, I have managed to get back into an apartment at least but it was sketchy for a while.

I would dearly love to find some little commune that took things slowly but I have health issues that require medication so I can't totally leave "normal" society.


I have some specific medication requirements as well that keep me tethered to society, sometimes this really annoys me. I do not want to be some paranoid person living in a cave, but sometimes I would really love to be able to make plans for my own little place in the middle of nowhere, just close enough to be able to get half-decent Internet, but far enough to really be alone as well. But even if I did this, medical requirements would make it so I had to maintain ties with my doctor and keep getting prescriptions.

My dream would be to just live mostly outside of society, with an internet connection, and just be able to earn all necessary income by doing things online somehow. It's kind of weird that in 2014, for all technology has done for us, work from home Internet jobs are still not a big thing.



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13 Jan 2014, 5:09 pm

other_worlds wrote:
GivePeaceAChance wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Makar wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what will happen to us folks for whom the world has become way too fast and chaotic?


I think we have to take a step back from the world or deal with the emotional consequences of being constantly overwhelmed. (Anxiety, depression, extreme stress, meltdowns.)

but the point I was making was what if it resulted in homelessness and oblivion?


it did at one point, I have managed to get back into an apartment at least but it was sketchy for a while.

I would dearly love to find some little commune that took things slowly but I have health issues that require medication so I can't totally leave "normal" society.


I have some specific medication requirements as well that keep me tethered to society, sometimes this really annoys me. I do not want to be some paranoid person living in a cave, but sometimes I would really love to be able to make plans for my own little place in the middle of nowhere, just close enough to be able to get half-decent Internet, but far enough to really be alone as well. But even if I did this, medical requirements would make it so I had to maintain ties with my doctor and keep getting prescriptions.

My dream would be to just live mostly outside of society, with an internet connection, and just be able to earn all necessary income by doing things online somehow. It's kind of weird that in 2014, for all technology has done for us, work from home Internet jobs are still not a big thing.


actually I have a certain group I wish to join & they are trying to help me fix some of my health issues - thinking many of them are due to the foods and stuff in modern day, if it works out I will be outside of internet access even when we set it up


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13 Jan 2014, 7:58 pm

other_worlds wrote:
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other_worlds wrote:
I get lost so easily in thought, I can waste an hour and not even realize it. Like, literally, I start running an internal dialogue or something or thinking about things, then suddenly it is 1 or 2 hours later and I don't know what happened.


This happens to me too, all the time, and costs me so much time that I could have spent doing something more productive. I never seem to be thinking about anything useful either, just daydreaming, mentally wandering off.


This is actually where my screen name for WP came from, I even started fleshing out environments and stuff for these "other worlds" that I visit. I have thought sometimes that I should begin writing, because I can make worlds in my head that only I know exist, I think I could try to share them with other people by writing, but I don't really know how to start, I kinda slept through all my literature and grammar courses in school, so I am probably not that great at constructing actual stories and such, just these "other worlds".


I've done something similar - I used to mostly fantasise myself into TV programmes, books I read and the like, but at some point I thought, if I am going to spend all my time making up stories, I may as well try and make them wholly my own; perhaps someday I can write something. So I started inventing my own worlds and stories in them, but so far none of it has been worth trying to write down :roll:

If you feel like writing, you should probably just give it a go. The results might not be great in the beginning, but I think just getting started somehow, and then improving from there, is the trick to it. If only I could take my own advice on that point...



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13 Jan 2014, 9:53 pm

Asperger96 wrote:
I feel like society is going along faster and faster and yet I'm unable to keep up with it. College application deadlines are fast approaching and I cannot cope with it. :(
I had a very hard time with those too. Just take them one at a time. I chose four colleges and applied to them, two of them I knew I could into and the other two I was not sure. I got into all four but narrowing them down really helped. Also you can have other people fill out the non important stuff like your name and address and all that logistical stuff. That will narrow down the "form type" stuff. They don't really care about that. What they are really looking at is the essay.


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14 Jan 2014, 5:22 pm

Asperger96 wrote:
I feel like society is going along faster and faster and yet I'm unable to keep up with it. College application deadlines are fast approaching and I cannot cope with it. :(


I was 18 I was very uncertain about going to college, so I chose to go to a junior college. The first 2 years are just about the same no matter which college you go to and the JC had a lot less pressure. Besides if it did not work I wasn't out much money