Yeah, like how he “worked” at McDee’s as a fry cook for 2 minutes and then smiled and waved at people for the rest of his “shift”.

Crip Mac became a moth?

I’m stealing that.

Send shoes, I have chiggers on the bottoms of my feet.

Vanilla? Is it really you?

30 years old, and well on my way to be a part of that esteemed club.

My favorite part about this is that many of these Sherman tank drivers come speeding behind me and then when they’re a car’s length from me, veer over into another lane, leaving the car behind them(who had been matching their speed) with the nasty little surprise of my car, which had been completely invisible to them a second ago.

Very true. I was born in Brazil and thus learned Portuguese as my first language. Then moved to the US when I was five. My parents sat me down in my grandparent’s basement and taught me English, it had to be done quick as school was starting very soon. Many years later I would return to Brazil and spent three months there. Starting with crude vocabulary and building it up as I went, over hundreds of interactions. The best way to learn a language, is out of necessity. Whether it really does hinge on you being able to communicate with others or if self-imposed. I wish more people saw it as something that must be done. Unfortunately, Google Translate enables laziness.

I don’t think I have a productive response that will somehow help you feel less pain. But as someone who is currently spiralling (although not as bad as I have) I can say that the pain diminishes, but never ceases to exist. Some people would recommend that you try to occupy yourself or try to get some “help”, but I know that only certain people actually get helped by the established processes of “mental health professionals”. I have adapted bad habits to cope. Drinking every night and trying to check-out. For people like us who can’t move on, we just need to find ways to at least continue to function, or we’ll find ourselves in progressively worse situations. Of course, that may just be conjecture, I don’t know you. But I can relate to being alone, brought to a point where we try to air out on a chat forum and receive validation and acceptance from strangers - because we don’t have anyone. Anyways, I’m always up to talk to pretty much anyone about pretty much anything. If you want to talk about it let me know.