That the way I've been avoiding serious topics of thought/conversation that aren't immediately relevant to me personally (and some that are) and the way I jump at any chance for fun with my friends or alone is in huge part due to the fact that I had an emotionally/verbally abusive adolescence that was very solitary and repressed, so now that I'm ( Read more... )

When I was a teenager I had these two friends, sisters. We hung out a lot in company with our other friends, we were pretty close---I even had my 17th birthday party at their house. We went to each others' graduation parties, had sleepovers, etc. A lot of memories there. Then when I was 19 they suddenly stopped acknowledging my existence; they ( Read more... )