That’s kind of what happened to me. Never needed to study in grade school. Had to scramble and learn how to study in college.

Still didn’t register why I had so much trouble focusing or remembering stuff until the last year or so.

I have a hard time having empathy for a group that wants me dead for existing…

My handwriting has always been terrible. It was a big issue in school until I was able to turn in printed assignments.

Like with a lot of school things, they do a shit thing without thinking about negative effects. They always want a simple solution to a complex problem.

That’s the point. They blatantly say “someday, the Ken’s will have as much rights as women do in the real world”

The entire point is that treating people as second class like thst isn’t good, regardless of which side its coming from and that we should all be equal. The only time I’d see men complaining about that is when they don’t get it.

Unfortunately, once you get enough money the system is designed to keep you wealthy no matter how much you fuck up.

Like, Trump has had multiple failed companies including casinos thay failed because he had them competeing with each other.

Yet while he’s probably not a billionaire he still has the status of “wealthy” and managed to fail into the most powerful position in government.

Musk had more money, and therefore can fuck up way harder and still be fine. He could burn Twitter to the ground for all the effect it would have on him.

This hurts users actually trying to find help more than it hurts reddit.

You want reddit to die just stop engaging with it. Archiving old info isn’t a profitable platform because new stuff drives engagement.

Being active elsewhere is what will kill reddit.

I’ve always lived by lord GabeN’s “piracy is a service issue. You have to offer a better experience than the pirates”

For me it was that I didn’t have the information I needed to process what I was feeling and deal with what was wrong. I didn’t have the language to even describe that something was wrong.

I know many others in my situation that ended up with worse coping mechanisms in the same circumstance. Heavy drinking and drug use is common in the community.

That said, addictions can be physical. There’s a reason you have to ween people off of certain substances because withdrawal can kill them.

There can be mental addictions, but older generations don’t tend to care unless it’s something they don’t like.

I don’t feel like I was addicted to games growing up, but I know I was using them for escapism. Nobody from the outside would have looked any farther than “you spend X amount a day playing games”, and ignore why I felt the need for it.

Too many self important people act like addiction is a personal failing when it’s usually somone trying to find some relief in a society that has failed them.

As somone who has used video games as escapism there could also be something underlying that nobody is considering.

Who is he gonna sell it to? Nobody would want it thanks to whay he did to it.

This is only because of republican propaganda, which they only did because young people did political coordination on ticktok.

The big corps have always had a right wing bias. The corps bend over backwards to cator to these asshats while shitting all over the left.

There’s a reason this stuff thrives on places like Facebook and will continue to do so. They also want a platform that has the widest reach.

It’s why they want to be in the big sites instead of making their own because they want the rest of us to see their nonsense. There may not end up being a big hate presence on fedi stuff because any right wing instances will be broadly blacklisted either by the instances or by the users.

I started sorting by day because of seeing stuff from days ago thay hasn’t been touched. Active and hot have been broken.

I missed how decentralized early internet was. When the we got to the point that there were only a handful of places people went to it changed how people interacted with the internet.