atomstetic
Suffering from intrapersonal perfectionism
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I've made threads on this topic before. I'll link the most recent one:
If you're going to troll, say "DNR" or anything alike, I beg you to skip this thread.
Today was the first day of school. I hated it. I can't believe I will have to do this for another two years.
To start, I do very well in school without studying. I've never struggled to understand anything, and I pass every class while doing pretty much no work the whole year.
The issue is that I don't like to do any work in relation to subjects I'm not interested in. This means I do very well in a select few classes and barely pass the rest.
Today, I was forced to socialise the entire day. The girl from my older thread also goes to my school. She is a senior. I believe she was looking at me a few times, but I'm not the best at catching social cues, although I try. I didn't speak to her at all today. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to, but oh well.
One problem I have is: how would I even start a conversation? Would I just say hello? That seems extremely awkward, especially if she's with her friends. Even if I did start with hello, what would we talk about after? I'm used to planning out my conversations by playing out many scenarios in my head beforehand, but I can't think of a good conversation to have with her.
I obviously have some hyper-fixations β one of them being my looks, which I certainly can't talk about. I want to seem neurotypical around her, but every day that I have to mask myself becomes more and more tiring (which is likely why I cried when I came home from school today. I'm not really sure why I cried, but I did).
I genuinely want to tell her how I'm ND and how I struggle to understand social cues, social conventions, how I pre-plan almost everything, how I'd rather sit in my room all day and watch YouTube, and how school is so draining for me. I'd also like to apologise for not going up to talk to her today if she prompted it somehow. The problem is that if I misread the situation again and she was just looking at me because I'm a person she's familiar with, then I would seem like a weirdo for saying all of this.
I am just so tired. I think about how I'm walking, sitting, how my resting face looks, if I'm squinting, if I'm currently revealing my hideous negative hooding, if my posture is okay, if my smile looks weird, if I'm doing something that could be making any of my flaws more visible, and more. There's just so much always going through my mind. I hate it so much. I overthink everything. I overanalyse everything. Socialising is more mentally draining and challenging than a chess game, even though I mask my neurodivergence quite well.
There's more that was on my mind, but I'm just so fucking tired. I wish my brain was different. Overall, I wish I was different.
Please give me advice.
From tomorrow on, I might just sleep in every class as I sometimes used to.
If you're going to troll, say "DNR" or anything alike, I beg you to skip this thread.
Today was the first day of school. I hated it. I can't believe I will have to do this for another two years.
To start, I do very well in school without studying. I've never struggled to understand anything, and I pass every class while doing pretty much no work the whole year.
The issue is that I don't like to do any work in relation to subjects I'm not interested in. This means I do very well in a select few classes and barely pass the rest.
Today, I was forced to socialise the entire day. The girl from my older thread also goes to my school. She is a senior. I believe she was looking at me a few times, but I'm not the best at catching social cues, although I try. I didn't speak to her at all today. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to, but oh well.
One problem I have is: how would I even start a conversation? Would I just say hello? That seems extremely awkward, especially if she's with her friends. Even if I did start with hello, what would we talk about after? I'm used to planning out my conversations by playing out many scenarios in my head beforehand, but I can't think of a good conversation to have with her.
I obviously have some hyper-fixations β one of them being my looks, which I certainly can't talk about. I want to seem neurotypical around her, but every day that I have to mask myself becomes more and more tiring (which is likely why I cried when I came home from school today. I'm not really sure why I cried, but I did).
I genuinely want to tell her how I'm ND and how I struggle to understand social cues, social conventions, how I pre-plan almost everything, how I'd rather sit in my room all day and watch YouTube, and how school is so draining for me. I'd also like to apologise for not going up to talk to her today if she prompted it somehow. The problem is that if I misread the situation again and she was just looking at me because I'm a person she's familiar with, then I would seem like a weirdo for saying all of this.
I am just so tired. I think about how I'm walking, sitting, how my resting face looks, if I'm squinting, if I'm currently revealing my hideous negative hooding, if my posture is okay, if my smile looks weird, if I'm doing something that could be making any of my flaws more visible, and more. There's just so much always going through my mind. I hate it so much. I overthink everything. I overanalyse everything. Socialising is more mentally draining and challenging than a chess game, even though I mask my neurodivergence quite well.
There's more that was on my mind, but I'm just so fucking tired. I wish my brain was different. Overall, I wish I was different.
Please give me advice.
From tomorrow on, I might just sleep in every class as I sometimes used to.
girls are afraid of chads btw
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