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Ferns General Advice Do or do not, there is no try. If you have to try, then it just isn't you.
If you aren't sure if you should have sex with him, then you are not ready to have sex with him.
"But I still love him!" Well he does not love you. If he loved you, he would not hurt you.
Let's get one thing straight. STUPIDITY IS NOT COOL. So hey, why not aim for more?

There's your answer fishbulb.



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I feel ashamed for even bringing him up in spacefem, because now it seems to me like I did it because I want their and your sympathy, even though I'm barely affected. Now I feel like even typing this is a means to feed my own selfishness.

I've done this before, but in a different situation. A couple of years ago, I got attention from my best friend by making my life seem worse than what it was. I didn't lie, but I talked to her about things that didn't bother me anymore (abuse, depression, etc). Am I doing it again? I'm I really so selfish that I will use such a tragic event like my step brother's death/paralysis for attention? If so, what type of a person does that make me?

I blame some of this on solitude. I used to never see my mother or most of my friends several years ago (I'd call everyone so often that I ruined a friendship out of lonliness and depression). I'd wake up, go to school, come home where I would just watch TV, sleep, and not see anyone until my mother came home from work around midnight, sometimes even as late a 2 in the morning. So, because of this, I don't think I know how to interact with other people anymore. I blame some of it on this, but it still doesn't justify it.

So what do you think? (Indeed)

Its not about sympathy - its about support. You obviously felt the need to outlet, or to have something, some kind of support. There isn't a single thing wrong with that. Even though you seem to think this is about attention - I don't believe that.

Sometimes, everyone needs a little attention, and just because that attention to you came when you needed it most (even though you don't feel that way) doesn't make it bad attention. I dont know if I'm making any sense here, but in my head it all works out.

I'll try to clarify this as best as I can - we all need attention, thats just human beings. I dont see this as you somehow using a tragedy to get it - I see it as you getting attention thats well overdue. If that makes sense at all.

If it matters - there isn't anything wrong with any of this, and I was very surprised when I read this, because its almost crazy to feel so guilty when you have done absolutely nothing wrong.


5 Thank you, I feel a little better now. I think I've lost the ability to recognize what I'm feeling. That is, if I had the ability in the first place.

I guess now you get a sample of what goes on inside my head. You're one of the few.
(Yarr)


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