ByteOnBikes

Last time I told a guy who messaged me daily on Discord that he was being real clingy and it made it hard to be friends with him, he threatened to find my house and "prove me wrong".

They have no friends, very limited social skills, and have a lot of free time to be toxic. Dangerous combination.

I used to be like that of wanting to mentor too. I wanted to help others get to where I'm at. Apparently a lot of these folks are serious energy vampires and I am always left mentally exhausted.

Kinda need to wake up to their own BS.

Didn't every guy go through a stage where they punched walls? Or did I really struggle with anger issues during high school?

I had lots of these situations on Steam.

I played a game, liked my time with a player, and they'd send me a friend request. But then it was daily messages about what I was doing, when I would play again, and often some sap story about why I'm important to them.

This was a constant thing that kept happening.

I could not believe that this is not a normal experience. If you put a poster in front of me, the words just get beamed into my brain the moment I'm see it.

But having chatted with people, there was a lot of folks who literally have to switch their brain to reading mode to actually start reading.

This guy either believes his code is god level (and has a huge ego), or just a crappy coder who can't explain what he wrote.

Yep.

I have a habit of sending out a list of questions, even when I number it, and only get a basic response to 1-2 questions.

Read the room though.

At a dating event? Sure.

At the bus stop? Uuuuh make small talk before that.

At work? Yikes.

This is the fear, isn't it? At work, I have a project manager who privately told me one of my juniors asked her out, because she requested a private meeting with him to go over a project that he's assigned to.

I did not expect my job to be having to explain to nerds that a woman talking to you directly isn't an invitation.

A gay guy once told me my glasses were cute.

Im married to a woman. But in that moment, I considered my new life as his man wife.

Yikes.

As a person of color, we do not trust the police.

This is why.