"Yes but what's the logic behind me receiving big recognition being a good thing if I don't want to receive recognition in a big flashy ceremony."
As a parent myself, let me put this as diplomatically as possible. How much of your childhood and education did you pay for yourself? Did you do it on your own without any support? When it's time for my kids to receive their recognition, they are damn well going through a ceremony for me. And I'm taking pictures!
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Ha! The man has a point.
Of course, my own attitude to kids is taken from Phillip Larkin.
edited 26th May '14 12:57:40 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiCeremonies are convenient excuses for after-ceremonies, and after-ceremonies are convenient excuses to get drunk
And what is the point of getting drunk?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayRomance does not have to equate to "not being you". I'd say that's the mistake you're making. Being fake to impress people is a really bad idea when it comes to actually wanting any kind of relationship, whether sexual or no, romantic or no.
And yeah, I know that all the fucking messaging from our fucked up society says we're supposed to be fake-selves for this purpose. Fuck that. You aren't going to be happy with someone who doesn't know how odd, boring, silly, dumb, whatever you are.
edited 26th May '14 7:47:18 PM by Morven
A brighter future for a darker age.I just feel like nothing every really works out for me with girls. I be myself and the other person just keeps themselves from me because they're afraid I'll judge their past. Either that or they end up overwhelming me emotionally because they latch onto my empathy for hurting people and use me as a therapist.
David Bowie 1947-2016Same here. I was so jealous at my sister, especially when I felt like I was The Un-Favorite with our father, because I was still single.
I don't so much wish I was asexual as wish that people would simply get that me being a strait guy didn't occasionally make things difficult in my friendships with strait women. They know I'm never going to be interested in them that way and they're never going to be interested in me that way, but there's still barriers, not to mention all the issues of other people not seaming to get that it's entirely possible for two strait people of opposite sexes to be close friends and have no interest in being anything else.
As for things blowing up, I've had enough friendships blow up on me that I use a similar thought pattern for romantic relationships, it might not work out and it may hurt in the end but I can have a lot of fun and there's no point in hiding myself away from the world due to fear.
I get people to do this deliberately, yay massive hero complex.
Though oddly enough it's only for friendships that I do it, I get to play amateur councillor/psychologist with my friends, I'd like a romantic partner who I didn't have to build up into a reasonably stable human being. I befriend what I call "project people", I don't date them.
Uh... project people is a pretty condescending way of describing fellow human beings.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?It's not a term I use to describe my friends, it's an generally internal only term I use to describe those people who are not so much friends as people I try and build up into better people. So it's people who aren't good friends and aren't good for me, but I stick with them anyway because I know that if they get some help and are able to grow as a person they could actually be a very good person and a very good friend.
So it's for those people who I have a almost completely one sided friendship with, they're not good friends to me and haven't ever really been, but I know that they have the potential to grow and I want to help them grow. It's not a term I'd use around any such people, it's more an internal only thing that I think I've used once or twice around my best friend.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranOkay, I just wanted to make sure you weren't going around saying this to people's faces, for your own sake. I've hurt some feelings saying similar things when I was younger.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?O god no, the only person I've used the phrase with will be two or three of my closest friends, one of whom actually is rather happy to say that she was a project person and is now actually my best friend.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI don't know if I'm asexual, but I've never felt bad about not having a significant other or put effort into finding one. For a while, I wondered if it was just a side effect of Aspergers.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayPETA tries to pretend there is a link between autism and dairy products.
Fantasy writer turned Filmmaker.
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I had just read this and was just about to share it. Good job.
But seriously: If I were ever to support them, PETA just lost any chance of keeping it.
Actual Filmmaker trying to earn a Creator page. Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry — available now on streaming and blu-ray.

Yeah well this after ceremony has been designed to ensure no one gets drunk