That cringe feeling can also be a self-defense mechanism. Cringe at yourself so you don’t do the thing and make society turn on you.
The solution is to find people you can be open with. They ARE out there, I promise. For every subcategory of “weird”, even the ones society hates.
(Of course, as you get more and more into “societally hated” territory, you’ll need to find more and more fringe platforms to exist on. But they do exist. That’s probably the most wonderful and most important thing about the internet.)
That cringe feeling can also be a self-defense mechanism. Cringe at yourself so you don’t do the thing and make society turn on you.
The solution is to find people you can be open with. They ARE out there, I promise. For every subcategory of “weird”, even the ones society hates.
(Of course, as you get more and more into “societally hated” territory, you’ll need to find more and more fringe platforms to exist on. But they do exist. That’s probably the most wonderful and most important thing about the internet.)
– Frost