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Ace ventura lend me your ears meme1/3/2024 ![]() I'm pretty self-sufficient and armored-up when it comes to that stuff. I had friends and comics and TV and music and video games and all that. (I rocked that same pre-Super Soldier build, too.)īut agonizingly enough, that wasn't the worst of it. You know that scene in the first Captain America movie, where he's in the car with Peggy Carter, and he keeps tripping over his words as he tries to empathize with her not being taken seriously, and everything he says is awkward and painful? That was me. And that sense of being "less than" manifested as an inability to converse with any girl I found even remotely attractive. (ahem, let me slip into my Large Marge voice.) I. I was painfully unsure of myself when I got outside my tiny comfort zone. My family didn't have a lot of money, so I never had the cool clothes all the rich kids had. No, my problem was that I, as The Kids say, had no game. ![]() ![]() And the only inhabitant of that space was me. In the Venn diagram of every possible type of social group in my high school, there was one tiny little minuscule space where they all overlapped. Had there been any gay kids who were out back then, I would have been pals with them too. The honors class kids and the remedial kids. I was friends with the jocks and the nerds. I have this weird, wonderful ability to make friends with people no matter what strata of society they represent. My lack of a love life didn't stem from being a nobody.
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