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r/ForeverAlone•
Pickled_Wizard

Hey you worthless scumbags!

Naw, just kidding. I love you guys, even when we disagree pretty strongly.

I just want to remind everyone that even if you are FA/depressed/ugly/weird/autistic, whatever other negative labels you apply to yourself:
That is NOT ALL that you are!

Please don't allow these traits to define your identity. That's the surest way to stay limited by them.

What positive attributes do you have? What are you proud of?
Hell, what everyday tasks do you excel at?
Are a good driver? An avid reader?
Are you good with car maintenance?
Know how to do things most people never seem to figure out?
Even the tiniest, most trivial thing is a good answer.

Here's where the eye rolling, sarcastic self-deprecating answers and various forms of reees will start. But I'm asking you, as one of you, to please give it some honest thought. Find something you like about yourself, even if the little voice in the back of your mind says things like: "No, that's not something to be proud of. Any jag with their shit together could do that."

It may not help you escape FA-dom, but goddammit you all DESERVE a little positivity and self-respect.

Posted Mar 4, 2017, 1:04 AM UTC

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Dant0FFNormie•

Nothing, I have no thing I like about myself.

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adamibalint•

Nothing tbh.

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Reaperdude97•

Id say im incredibly intelligent (make As in college with near no effort put in), funny (im able to make other guys laugh ie not women who find me disgusting and thus disqualify everything i say). Thats about it i guess.

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Festfingre•

still think you got some real gold there. Tell me a joke that turns girls off (please tell me on that you would normally tell a girl)

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TerribleJokeBot•

Hey, do you want to hear a joke about Sodium? Na.

I am a bot. To summon me, include "tell me a joke" somewhere in your message.

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Festfingre•

hey so im getting the feeling that these subs, like foreveralone and incels is a fucking circlejerk

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Reaperdude97•

It really is, but where else can we vent and get our demons out without being ignored? The best part about this community is we all know how it feels so we can commisate without having our feelings dismissed. Its not like we are these horrible people in real life, all the hatred and all is just a cope and something said here to get the anger out so you can continue to pretend to be normal.

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Reaperdude97•

I dont think i can really pull one off on the spot, its mostly just wisecracks, puns, and all that flow with the conversation. Nobody wants someone who is intelligent and funny. They want someone who is attractive, and in order to not sound shallow they say an attractive guys secondary qualities (being funny and intelligent) are what makes them attractive. But anyone who sees the truth of it knows thats not the case. or else there wouldnt be any "nice guys".

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Pickled_WizardOP•

Right on. What's your major?

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Reaperdude97•

Electrical Engineering. really doesnt help my fucking situation, sadly enough. You?

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bigwilly39•

Dude I feel you. I'm computer engineering with a 3.9 GPA and can easily make guys laugh and can't remember the last time I talked to a girl in person other than family.

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Reaperdude97•

Yea it sucks. Maybe 10 years from now the salary will make some girl overlook our obvious flaws so they can settle down with someone stable.

It sucks too that i never talk to women in the first place, so i cant say that even if i were in a less male dominated major it would help.

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Pickled_WizardOP•

Electrical Engineering and CS. I'm not particularly good at either. It's an absolute sausage fest, not that I would have much of a shot in a different major either :(. But anyway, have you done any cool projects?

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Reaperdude97•

I am still a freshman, but i have started to work on some extracurricular peojects.

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lonesomeloser234You can't run and hide•

People have said I'm a decent writer, I'm pretty quick at picking up new concepts, and I can drive pretty good. People also said I have really nice handwriting, but they cannot read it, so I guess that's a give and take.

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Pickled_WizardOP•

What kind of stuff do you write?

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lonesomeloser234You can't run and hide•

Ha! You give me wayyyyyy too much credit. People have commented on my essays, speeches, and reddit posts. The former was dome for classes, the latter was not.

I don't like ... write but apparently I'm good at it.

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Pickled_WizardOP•

Oh, I see. So not something you do for fun, per se. Have you thought about blogging? Maybe picking apart news stories/issues. May be a little bit too much of an investment of your time, but it sounds like you would be good at it if you're decent at acedemic writing.

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lonesomeloser234You can't run and hide•

I'm far too afraid of the notion of me writing things, only to have them ignored, or mocked.

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theforeshadowing•

I can't read my own handwriting lol.

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PatientBison24M KV•

I can repair any electronic equipment, especially computers, by only looking at it. I like how I look like. I like my field of study. I'm a helpful person. I've been supporting teenagers in their development for years. I've had real life adventures.

I can go on... but this is a subreddit for people with no romantic experience in a long time, so what does it change? I still feel lowly, because it is basic life experience and social marker for success.

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jaytazcross•

I like to animate, I think I suck at it, it's just the thing I'm better at

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Pickled_WizardOP•

Do you do more 2D or 3D animation? I played around a few years ago with AnimeStudio, but didn't get very far. Ditto blender.

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jaytazcross•

2D, havent tried 3D yet

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ThrasymachianJustice•

Just saying:

This is the exact advice that ended me being FA

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bitterNsourdepressed and anxious NEET•

I um, I can breathe really well. lol

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Pickled_WizardOP•

lol, nice. But come on, I know there's something real. Even the NEET-est among us has something.
Any games that you're good at?

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bitterNsourdepressed and anxious NEET•

Oh yeah I have talents I was just shitposting.

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Neko_ShogunUgly, boring, socially impaired and emotionally fucked•

I tried, yet couldn't think of anything. There isn't a single positive thing about myself, which is why nature is removing me from the gene pool.

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SamsonB7919 year old wizard-in-training•

i'll be honest, i can hardly think of something positive about myself because i have absolutely no clue what normal people consider positive because whenever i think i know i'm proven wrong

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Starman926•

Uhhhhh, tall?

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