Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
Idk, I've always been pretty introverted and never really liked the "intense school social network" it's not like I fully distance myself from others or anything, it's just that sometimes, especially early morning, the crowd can be a bit much for me. As for emotional intelligence, again idk, I like to think that I'm somewhat emotionally mature to an extent (been through a lotta shit and all) but I've never really been in an emotional relationship before, so I can't say for sure... Dunno I guess I'm just fine with keeping a small friend group and just being generally friendly with everyone else.
And you mentioned that you have niche interests... Yeah, you should look at my lemmy profile, though I generally don't feel like having niche interests makes it harder to socialize with people, as if you give them the hint, they'll usually start the conversation themselves and you can pick up after...
And my problem isn't so much an age group problem, it's more of an, as I mentioned above "I'm an adult, you're an adult, why do you feel the need to belittle me?" type of feeling... And yes, 18 is the legal age for... Pretty much everything, where I live.
Seriously, I would have said all of these same things at your age. You will find yourself in much the same situation I have described.
It is so very difficult to relate how complexity changes and how deep you can go with decades of experience. Things are much more complicated the deeper you go into a range of subjects. Like I painted cars for nearly a decade, to most people I am an expert, but I was still learning all the time. Any idiot can learn to paint in a day. The real skill is knowing how to solve the thousands of random problems you'll face every 3rd job. Everything is like that or more so.