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After I moved out, every time I would come visiting back home my cat would casually stroll just in front of the door, look at me, and disappear for the next 12 hours or so, to show she didn’t need me back. I would usually find her back on my bed during the night 🥲 I miss her…

I found some local boardgames clubs and knitting clubs that are quite chill :) [and most people playing board games are either not neurotypical or introverted, so it’s a good place to start having minimal interaction]

On a similar note, being social is a skill we learn over time. Usually, while we are teenagers, we do a lot of social faux pas because we haven’t learned yet how to interact. Since you say you spend a lot of time in your room, it’s normal that it would take you a little training before becoming more of a social butterfly. Don’t be discouraged!

I don’t want to arm chair diagnose anyone from a handful of words but… this sounds like depression. Being exhausted from work should happen once in a blu moon, not every day (tired is normal). Lacking motivation to do the stuff you want to do every weekend also seems like a deeper problem.

This aside: thanks for being here! It might seem others don’t care, but we do. I have a friend going through stuff. I know they are having it rough, I try to help knowing it barely does. I just hope they’ll cone out on top at some point.

I wish the same for you. If you have accessible mental health resources, please reach out to them, get a plan in place. Even if it seems useless or overwhelming. Please

Question 6 is missing ;) - and there doesn’t seem to be a need for question 5?

I don’t seem to be able to get over my dark circles. It’s years I sleep the recommended 8 hours, doesn’t seem to matter. But if I sleep less they get even worse :/

I am cis, and that was a very important self-actualisation and self-discovery path. I was the quiet shy kid in high school. Luckily, I had some amazing friends that brought me out of my shell and accepted whatever came out. Over time (so much time!) I finally embraced weirdness and random thoughts, and acting on them. It’s incredibly freeing to just do what you want to do! I’m a “serious person” with a “serious job”, I still paint my hair silly colors and do whatever I feel like!

Great suggestion! Will try to work on it next time. I must admit my characters have very little character development usually. I should work on that!

Metagaming kills the game!

I took some very silly decisions because that’s how I thought the character would behave. Only once did I regret it: I made too shy a character and that made for a boring trip. Usually, it was a lot of fun. Honorable mention: being flown away by an angry dragon that I knew would be defeated soon without my character’s intervention, but my character obviously didn’t care. So they went >splat<. Worthy death at the end of a campaign!

It’s better than scientifically proven! They made cute videos out of it! Isn’t that obviously more trustworthy?

I didn’t know that Pikachu was a pika… I thought it was the only starter whose name was really random! My life has been a lie

I am cis woman, and I totally agree with your stance that gender doesn’t feel like anything. There are societal expectations (that I have often and repeatedly thrown in the bin), but aside of than being a woman just is. What you want to see in the mirror and how that expectation matches reality seems to me more important.

During the last evening of a short campaign, my character got unreasonably upset about their pet being killed and as a level 3 ranger climbed on top of an undead dragon and started stabbing it. Rolled an absurd sequence of nat 20 to make it happen, but all luck has to run out, and rolled a 2 at some point. The dragon yeeted me to the skies and I flew away, smashed against a tree, with just the time to yell to my party “I regret nothiii”-SPLAT.

I loved that short lived character, loved the death he encountered!