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A friend tweeted a link to something, and one of the items felt like it would be applicable to\u00a0my<\/em> situation if it was modified. Unfortunately, just sharing the modified item by itself would almost certainly make people feel guilty and would also appear\u00a0ungrateful<\/em> toward the\u00a0many<\/em> people who have helped me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I think<\/em> it makes more sense to share it using a medium where I can include all the extra explanation I feel I have to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I include the actual item, I want to write that I’ve had almost no one<\/em> actually express this to me. It’s more like what I assume has<\/em> to be going through their minds. I’ve been told multiple<\/em> times that I’m “over-thinking” things. I’m sure<\/em> that’s  happening, but I don’t feel like I have any choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know it must seem like I’m being stubborn<\/em>… that I’m simply choosing<\/em> not to speak to people. That’s completely not true<\/em>, though. Speaking to people just doesn’t work<\/em> for me right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m convinced<\/em> now that the problem is with real-time interaction much<\/em> more than with my speech. It’s like there’s a copy of me<\/em> that’s constantly asking me things like, “What are you going to say next, huh?”, “Don’t you know all the things he could be doing<\/em> in those huge<\/em> time gaps you leave?”, and “You realize you used to be quite good<\/i> at this, right?” Except, take that and multiply it by roughly 1,000. In effect, I can’t think of things to say\/write, because I’m so busy being mad at myself for doing such a bad job thinking of things to say\/write. \ud83d\ude09 As I’ve written many times before, “Chicken, meet egg. You two are going to be great<\/em> friends.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My original point? Oh yeah. \ud83d\ude42 It was to write the modified version of that quote. Here’s “my version”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n