I’m tired of every single “safe space” being an adult space.
I’m a lonely person, I do online school so I don’t get to interact with other people very often. I’m NB16 and I also just recently lost my best friend of 11 years, so I don’t really have anyone. I’ve tried making new friends online, real life, and in general going into nerdy spaces to try and connect with people, but nothing is working. Anyways, I started joining TikTok lives because they advertise “safe spaces for everyone”, “making friends” and, “debates/discussions”. But whenever I actually get to join these, they tell me I can’t be there RIGHT AFTER I tell them I’m 16. And it feels so embarrassing and humiliating considering many other people are watching these lives, and they don’t even have it listed anywhere on their live that it’s 18+ prior to telling me once I’ve already started speaking in the live. And this isn’t just a one time thing, it’s almost every single time I join one. And even in real life too, I have this club I go to every week and all of their out of club activities that they host are 18+ too. What makes it worse is that I live in a really boring area where there is literally nothing to do but go to the mall and the occasional conventions that only happen a few times every year, and going to the mall is only fun when you actually have friends. Even traveling is boring and agonizing for me, I go out of state sometimes with my family (who are all adults) and for example in Vegas all they do is drink and gamble, which as a 16 year old I think you can imagine how fucking boring that is for me. And once every year we go to Canada to visit family, but it’s even boring there because my family lives in the middle of nowhere with no wifi, and once again the adults all hang out with each other, and to make it worse they all have this kind of superiority complex because they’re older, and this stupid “You’ll get it once you’re older” mindset. If anyone knows any nerdy spaces for minors or everyone I can join, please let me know.
Posted Oct 22, 2025, 5:11 PM UTC