do you think you've evolved as a person

[zim]

have you corrected or worked on any issues you had when you were younger?

i was quite an angry lad during most of my 20s and teens, i am 31 now and i feel like i'm a lot less angry these days. i try not to take things so serious and instead i laugh at the absurdity of it all

[Noyka]

I was a huge push over back in the day and really naive. Got me in a lot of trouble as a teen/young adult let a lot of less than safe people enter my life. I don’t think it’s evolving as much as learning some fucking common sense and to read red flags better.

[Grudge]

Yes but the evolutions have happened far too late. I should have had better direction sooner in life so I could have made the appropriate career choices.

[Aðalsteinn]

I’ve actually given this a lot of thought lately and yes, I believe I have worked on and corrected several wrongs within myself in the last few years.
My problem had to do with a certain level of arrogance and attitude. And being a true gloryhole era teen, things always had to be either/or. No middle ground. My whole social circle back then was pretty much the same, so getting of the high horse didn’t really seem necessary.
Getting older, I started to realize that these traits were probably holding me back, career wise.
Obviously, marriage and fatherhood will force one to make adjustments to your own needs and wantings. Or make it easier to do so, I’m not really sure
About maybe 5-6 years ago I finally started to really work on becoming a more welcoming and understanding person. I’ve always been that way inside my home and family, but maintained a cold narcissistic attitude towards most others.
I am happy to say that said changes have done wonders for my social skills and management capabilities

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

I was a fucking mess of a human from 18 to 24

[rhino]

I was a fucking mess of a human from 18 to 24

[rhino]

Well more like 18 to 30 :/

[Noyka]

12 - 26 for me

[zim]

maybe 16 - 27

[shadowalk]

honestly it's more of how my younger self is adapting to current times but i don't think i ever changed

[jawn galliano]

always, but never enough

[Bill Clinton]

I still live in the 90's

[droidspawn]

Of course.

[Ninny]

I have iron discipline compared to the old days. I still need a push, anything I want to do for myself it's not much

[Z's bouncy tits]

I don't get into fights anymore, or at least try and avoid those situations.

Everything else is as you were, being recently diagnosed as autistic. So that has made a lot of things more sense.

[agony bagony]

not really

[User]

yeah probably but i am still the same deep down

[Noyka]

I don't get into fights anymore, or at least try and avoid those situations.

Everything else is as you were, being recently diagnosed as autistic. So that has made a lot of things more sense.

Welcome to the club

[Z's bouncy tits]

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Only took 41 years.

[Ninny]

Fighting an autist, you have that focus

[Noyka]

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Only took 41 years.

We are both from the dark ages I was diagnosed at 14 now they diagnose infants which is great get therapy going early.

[zim]

is temple grandin a reliable source on autism? i've read one of her books and watched some interviews, she's super interesting

[Noyka]

I don’t have a problem with her, some in the community do. Autism is a spectrum and affects everyone differently. Her experience is hers.

I think folks forget communities don’t have to be monoliths.