SterlingPooper [none/use name]

I relate to so much of what you’ve said. Can’t offer much advice right now. Clearly others have a lot to say, so I’ll just say solidarity.

“… okay, I have two more ideas, and they’re gonna be big.”

hell yeah dude

I can relate Like I said, I wish people were more sympathetic. I found that by telling people I was struggling, I was starting a countdown timer before they’d get sick of me. Don’t know what I could’ve done, short of being someone else.

“Never let them see you bleed”

People generally would rather have a shiny surface level impression of each other that glides through the brain than a deeper, more detailed relationship that requires them to think very hard. They care less about broader implications and meanings and more about “does being around Sterling feel good/bad” and then deciding what to do based on that

Some that is because people, some of that is society forcing us to each be our own little cowboy and giddy on up with none of that bellyaching! I wish people were more inclined to just help each other, but alas.