AskewLord

a relationship is mostly the fanfic of it you make up in your head. romantic partners idealize each other, primarily and tend to overlook glaring personality problems and incompatibilities when in limerance with each other.

relationships end when you realize reality of the other person doesn’t live up to the fantasy of who you think they are. sometimes that takes weeks or months, sometimes years.

for a relationship to last long term you have believe in the ideal of the other person and your future with them, not the day to day reality.

men and women both are turning to AI chatbots. adults do this as well.

because our social/romantic environment is toxic af and they want an escape from it.

Put yourself in the shoes of an angsty insecure teenager.

Why wouldn’t you want to sit around in a fantasy relationship with a chatbot that tells you how wonderful you are hours each day?

When I was an angsty teen I was in chatrooms hours a day looking for validation and socialization from strangers because I wans’t getting at home or at school, because I was in shitty backwater town full of ignorant multi-generational townie morons. I was socially popular and had girlfriends but the insularity of my local community still drove me online to find people who were more open-minded.

And I never got what I was looking for until I got to college, where I finally got to meet people from all over the world who didn’t think I was a secretly a queer for not liking football and preferring soccer. I had professors and friend who praised and congratulated me for being academically inclined, rather than mocking and deriding me for it. I think adults forget how oppressive some communities and families are towards their children, because you forget the fact as a teen/child you have zero control or freedom over your environment and the internet is really the only place you get to exercise control. I’m not sure what I’d have done without the internet as a teen, as my daily life was full of suicidal ideation from the ages of 12-18 due to the ever-present oppression of my environment.

American has such a massive hardon for hating on teachers.

I don’t understand, doesn’t this type of stuff go beyond college club stuff and wouldn’t it violate the code of conduct for the individuals involved?

Then again, schools don’t really seem to give a shit about enforcing rules about cheating anymore, sooo