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I don't post here a lot because I am a 44M FA who is more or less ok with it at this point. I have a job at work and my co-workers get along with me well enough, but whenever I've left a job, the people I used to know basically fall off the map for me, so really work acquaintences at best.

Never had a gf, or anyone show any real interest in me. No hope of ever having a family. And when my parents are gone, I'll probably just be running out the clock at my age until I'm gone too. I don't think anyone will notice and I suspect that I'll be forgotten completely by everyone who ever knew me pretty soon after. Once I'm gone, it will be like I never existed.

But for some reason, I kinda lik

Hi Everyone,

Not sure how many people remember me, but I used to post here quite a bit. A few months ago, I stopped. I wish I could say it is because I escaped, and it's definitely not because I died (lol). Truth is that I totally forgot about this place and about Reddit in general, mostly due to work and my various projects. Hope nobody missed me too much!

Anyway, I think one of the good things that helped me forget is that my sex drive has been mostly gone since the start of the year and has pretty much stayed gone, which has been a big help in making me not so frustrated with being FA. I probably won't be posting too much here these days just because I feel this place is more for

I am not allowed to have pets since my wizard powers are repellent to most forms of mammalian life (going through the K9 inspection queue at the airport sucks like nothing else). Having said that, I am curious as to how many people on this board have pets and how they help (or not help) folks manage living as an FA.

When you've been dumped in a country where you aren't a native speaker, the only way to get by is to learn. At first, communicating with others is impossible. But even if you've been prepared with a high school level course of the language, you get really nervous. Speaking in your own language would give you confidence, but nobody would be able to understand anything you are saying. And you are nervous about trying to speak theirs because you aren't very good and are worried you might look silly by trying so it's better to not try at just keep your mouth shut and avoid interacting with people.

But what if you have the courage to try to learn the language through repeated learning as wel

Not really trying to be insensitive by casting a silver lining on what is probably the greatest challenge to befall humanity since the last world war. But one thing I've noticed is that a lot of the high-anxiety and/or high-spending expectations women have of men are severely hampered by the ongoing pandemic.

Back at my old work, when I was in my 20s and 30s, the expectation most women around me had was that they would go to parties, to clubs, go on expensive trips and restaurants with the guys they were into. A lot of these situations are a nightmare for guys who suffer from social anxiety and/or who have low job prospects. But now, clubs are closed down. Parties are verboten. Travel

And I'm not talking about mainstream shit like anime or video games. Nothing unusual or weird about that anymore (unless you are into some of that fucked up anime/manga that will get you banned on the more legit social media sites).

For me, my weirdest thing is that I am a huge Lego fan. Even my parents would make fun of the fact that I liked Lego toys when I was a teenager, saying I was too old for that shit. But I personally found a great sense of relief from my lonliness when I was able to build my own worlds using Lego bricks. I still have a collection of them now that decorate my new home office.

What about you? What weird hobbies are you into that normies would judge you on (or

Feeling more confident in myself than usual, I approached two women at the library who seemed friendly enough. One of them was super nice to me, but I could tell she wasn't really interested in chatting that much. We just talking about the project she was working on and at the end said it was nice to meet a new friend like me. Ugh.

Second girl smiled at me while I was talking to one of the dudes I was hanging out with at the library. Turns out she was working there so I went over to her desk to say hi and by the time I got out my kickass pickup line, I looked up and saw that she had walked away from me before I finished my sentence.

Then I woke up.

You think it's bad to have a girl in

My parents have been making comments about grandkids since I moved in with them and now seem more interested in me bypassing the 'finding a mom' stage completely and just going on to having a kid by basically adopting one.

I've never really been excited about being a dad or a family man. When I was younger, I was always under the impression that having a child is what happens when couples aren't careful, not something people actually try to do on purpose. And I never had any younger siblings or cousins so I don't know much of anything about how to be a good dad to anyone. Still, I figure that now is probably the best time to do this sort of thing if I wanted to at all. I am 40 so even if

Sometimes I wonder if the reason some of us are FA is because we didn't have male role models that taught us how to be men and how to talk to women.

I had a dad growing up, but had trouble relating to him since I had aspergers. I didn't really have many friends growing up either and no uncles or older siblings who were guys. Ironically, more women were interested in being friends with me because I was a skinny nerd who didn't pose a threat to them and felt comfortable confiding in me since they didn't care if I judged them since they weren't interested in impressing me since I was never an option for them. Most of the few friends I got who were guys were also really nerdy guys who weren'

Since my anime post was somewhat popular, moving on to the next most-stereotyped FA interest, video games.

Like anime, I haven't played a lot of video games lately, but I am thinking of getting back into it after seeing how things have changed recently in the gaming world. Most of the stuff that is among my favorites are really old school, but I still want to play some of the newer stuff:

1 - Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past (SNES), Awakening (GBC), Link Between Worlds (3DS): One of my first and favorite video games of all times. They are all part of what I called the Link Trilogy (I never had much use for the other games in this series) and I love the puzzle solving aspect as well as

Since most people here are socially dysfunctional, I am guessing plenty of folks here dig anime. Mostly, I am kinda bored right now while my program compiles so curious to know what people think about the genre and what people are into.

I really like a lot of the older stuff myself, but I don't really watch anime at all anymore. I feel like too much of it has degenerated into that moe shit that everyone posts on social media nowadays and the prevalence of that lolicon garbage creeps me the fuck out to the point to where I don't go into the artistic circles anymore even.

Having said that, my favorite OAVs/serieses are the following:

1 - Tekkaman Blade (series): In retrospect, the story i

I just recently spent a lot of time in MGTOW, on message boards as well as youtubers. My algorithm is completely messed up now, but I was interested to learn about this community since I basically considered myself more MGTOW than FA since I really have lost interest in escaping at this point and find more fulfillment in the single life at this point. I didn't really relate to MGTOW as much as I thought I would, but I did find some interesting bright spots to the whole idea. Overall, this is what I found most commonly among the various places I visited.

1). Guys talking shit about women, especially older women who are still single.

This is probably my least favorite part of my experien