A friend once told me:

[apiphile]

Everyone has their own level of comfort, and that's true. She told me that everyone also has their own margin of acceptable risk, which made sense at the time as an explanation for why I couldn't get another friend of mine to come with me somewhere ("She doesn't think it's safe." / "It's safe enough." / "Not safe enough for her."), but which in

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[thecatinthetree]

Yes. This. Also known as "suck it up and deal with it". Why is it that I seem to have entered relative adulthood a good 6 or 7 years ahead of my peers?

[apiphile]

It's astounding how many people haven't learnt this and tbh I think your family circumstances may have had something to do with it :(

[thecatinthetree]

Well yes, is it weird to say I sometimes forget that? I'm all like "rargh why aren't all 20 year olds mature and responsible like me" and then I go "oh yeah, because they don't have to be..." oops. But yes.

[crotalus_atrox]

One good thing came from that 18-year stretch of crap, and that was "learning to put up with shit you can't change".
That is an unfortunate but incredibly useful skill.

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