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user-inactivated  ·  3349 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 30, 2015

So yeah last week was probably one of the worst weeks I've had in a few years, but at least it's over now.

That said, I'm not a fan of people who change a ton when they get into relationships. CIP: roommate (who is 22 years old).

Ever since he started dating this chick he has lost any semblance of the person he used to be. Wants to be referred to with a new name, use different pronouns because he's now gender-fluid. I'm now hearing "terms" like aquarius cusp, XNFP, 4 w 5 wings. His kiss-pal or whatever the fuck they call each other at this point has self-diagnosed herself with ptsd, bipolar disorder, an eating disorder, adhd, and avpd, like these are symptoms that you can just buy at a fucking shopping market. People who self-diagnose infuriate me, especially because I know actual people with these actual disorders and it fucking sucks, it's not fun and you don't put it in your fucking tumblr profile like it's some sort of positive identifier.

But yeah. Now scopophobia "triggers" him. I showed him that video of that robot that wants to put humans in people zoos and he just looked up at me and was like "why do they have to gender the robot?" Like are you fucking kidding me man, this robot wants to take over the world and you're worried about its pronoun usage?

Tried to talk to him about it but he lashed out and said I was being insensitive and didn't support him. Really that's only because I don't coddle him like his girlfriend does, but I also just left it alone since I've got my own problems, haha. But yeah, he basically wants to become that whole "hipster-white-dude-poet that smokes and has a manic pixie dream girlfriend and is super poor and hates the system and just isn't understood" stereotype. Which, okay, whatever gets you hard, but you also have to pay rent and if that becomes an issue his ass is grass, I ain't got time for this shit, lol.