Same. Exactly.

If you have a yard, and you go outside after midnight, there's just this cool calm quiet, like no one else is even awake.

Same. I just get up 3-4am for that instead

Totally agree

Why 2020 was my favorite year ever.

Not if you have insomnia

I agree! I just wish the people that live/care for the people that live in the group home below me didn't get up at 5:30 and talk in the common area underneath my bedroom. I live in an apartment building that has a group home in it and the carers are there 24/7 (shift work, I presume) and I guess they get up early in case the tenants need them. I don't mean it to sound rude, I just don't want to hear talking in the suite below my bedroom at 5 in the morning, when there isn't any other noise. I'm a night owl and I was awake when it happened this morning, but I wasn't talking (I live alone). The group home goes from one end of the building (the back) to the other (the front), they could be in the other end of the suite at 5 AM and not be bothering me. I don't want to have to wear earplugs at home.

True! A certain calmness about the night.

THIS

Yes, me too. Damn, I thought I was special.

ditto

My husband doesn't understand this at all. This is me

This is so me!!

Ooooohhh truth.

Sometimes I am reading and I completely zone out and think about other things and I have to reread the whole paragraph again

Welcome to my weekend mental cycle.

So, so, so true!!

Every d*mn time.

Hyper independent over here

I'm not a gifted kid, but I've always been a bookworm. I did have a period where I lost interest in reading and it made me so sad. Fortunately, I was able to overcome my slump and I've come to realise that I'll always go back to reading even if I take a lot detours with my other hobbies. Reading will always be my favourite thing in this world.

Nooooo!!! I’ve literally screenshot like half of this post! Hahaha!!

Not only do I get anxiety about that but I stress about not knowing if I’ll have to make a left turn without a traffic light, that I won’t know what lane I need to be in and which lanes end, wondering how many u-turns I’ll have to make when I screw up the GPS’s step by step directions, will there be a roundabout? I could go on.

I don’t remember posting this but I must have because it sounds exactly like the inside of my brain.

Every time I open my mouth, pretty much

You found your true self, celebrate. Or not

People say I am smart, then I look around at my life and think "prove it"

It's an overused trope fiction writers use. Never heard of it happening in the real world.

Or... you start it in private and tell NO ONE because she raised you to believe that no matter how well you did, that it was a failure anyhow - so now you're in constant paralyzing fear of 'failing', and that NOTHING you do is good enough. Then ... you see random-others on the internet posting/selling/advertising ridiculously sub-par garbage... and you wonder "I can NOT possibly be that bad. How are these people getting away with it?"

Everyday at work.

At 3am my hip hurts so I have to adjust sleeping positions but when the cats realize I am awake they will relentlessly bug me until I pay attention to them

Every. Damn. Day.

i have a sticker chest resting in my "s..t that u'll need someday for sure" drawer

I'm feeling that

If I say I am in Paris and you see me in the local market next day, you're in Paris too. No need to make it complicated.

I got misophonia (Idk, self diag'ed maybe) and I can't watch anything on phone with sound. If it ain't have subtitles I am not watching it however if it's on TV or big screen and the sound volume is just enough I don't get that mad. I tried to work on it and normalize after being married but couldn't pretend to be okay so my wife understands it and doesn't play videos without headfones or going to other room. I sometimes feel bad for her :( I read people getting irritated by other people's loud phones in public all the time but that makes me extramad and I have picked multiple fights for this very reason because asking nicely didn't help.

Damn...I kinda have to agree

This was my childhood so I don’t think my heartbreaks anymore. It’s more like it’s hardened edges ju— …

My dream is to be able to live without a job.

That's why I keep trying to kill mine with alcohol.

What?

Yes! I rarely ever ask for help and then get completely overwhelmed and stressed out trying to do everything on my own.

I'm in this picture and I don't li.. - wait, scratch that. I am in this picture and I am deciding to not judge myself I need two hours to get out of bed this week.

Because....context....and background....and rationale.

You can always fall back on "I pulled Excalibur from the stone", because everyone will start making Monty Python jokes and forget you exist.

I tend to be overly polite when I need to ask someone a favor.

I get very comfortable around people when I am tired, listen to me then.

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Not alone. I also indulge in self-hatred when I invest far too much money into supplies for a hobby I tried once and wanted to pursue, only to have an unopened box fort of c**p I never use stare me in the face as a reminder that makes me instantly exhausted. 🤦🏼‍♀️

The mortifying embarrassment of knowing that other people know how you really feel is terrifying. I always know this and yet still do it randomly for some unknown reason.

I misread that as eating too much and instantly agreed. Then I reread it...

100% I hate when people I'm not close to touch me.

In writing, notarized, with at least three witnesses.

Its not you oversharing, society just wants to underlisten.

How dare you cold read me like that? Mind your own.

I am obsessed with new skills until I am good at them, then they are mind numbingly boring. I have a hard time in interviews explaining I am good at everything I have done but only want to do what I haven't done so I can be good at that too and move on.

Everyday!