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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2176996" data-attributes="member: 30001">IMO something they should teach in health class in High School is that your 20s suck.  Ok, maybe if you're a rock star or one of the Kennedy's things are pretty cool, but I think for most other men, at least, that decade ain't no picnic. So my theory is that you'll reach Kluge-vana and won't care what people think anymore after you've wrestled with this problem for a few more years.  IMO the thing is to realize that both everyone else and you have a problem, but you're only going to fix yours and that problem is that you have to learn to accept yourself to the degree that these other things fade away.  Work on the friendships that you have with people that accept you.  Work on showering, moving into your own home, girlfriends, weight, hobbies, sports, etc. when/if those things interest you.  It's a lot easier for people to enjoy things when you don't feel like a gun is being held to your head telling you "do this or else people won't like you."  I'm going to wear my Iron Maiden t-shirt to my cushy office job tomorrow.  And then at noon I'm going to surf over to enworld, read about DnD, and laugh to myself about how I don't work at Blockbuster.  Then maybe the day after I'll go get a tatoo. And for the love of Odin, don't listen to anything you read on a girl gamers thread.  Man, I feel dirty for just reading that thing.</blockquote>