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I am booknut. I joined this site because I am so lonely and want someone who thinks like me to talk to.
I do not like talking about myself. I prefer to stay invisible. That has always happened. No one cares about my exisitence outside my family. Everyone ignored my ideas in school and only spoke to me as neccesary.

I am a devout Latter Day Saint. I want to write stories but I am scared to. I stutter and stammer and repeat
words. I have severe depression. My Dad calls me brilliant. I don't really see it.

I'm probably not doing this right. End.
 
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booknut said:
I am booknut. I joined this site because I am so lonely and want someone who thinks like me to talk to.
I do not like talking about myself. I prefer to stay invisible. That has always happened. No one cares about my exisitence outside my family. Everyone ignored my ideas in school and only spoke to me as neccesary.

I am a devout Latter Day Saint. I want to write stories but I am scared to. I stutter and stammer and repeat
words. I have severe depression. My Dad calls me brilliant. I don't really see it.

I'm probably not doing this right. End.
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you did it the right way ,you disagree with your dad because you have low self-esteem ,from what I understand of psychology it's a vicious circle low self-esteem breeds depression and so on ...,you've got to begin mindfulness -very very soon- when you focus on something you become calm when you become calm your depression will get better.
look up mindfulness on a search engine to see what interests you it can be different things for different people.It's not a quick fix but you will start to feel it work. I am a Christian Zionist ,I previously attended an assemblies of God church not well enough at the moment ,
Writing stories would be a good part of mindfulness !
 
I'm sorry to hear you feel ignored in the world. I've always loved books, and used them as an escape.
It's not strange to want to feel a connection with people, I'm sure plenty of people joined here for the same reasons.

Anyway, welcome here.
 
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booknut said:
Thanks for responding.
This feels weird.
Why am I doing this?
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I did it because I value my sanity and because I had very recently been diagnosed and still find it hard to understand I am autistic .
I had a stutter like you for a very short while! but it stopped here is a quote as Usual I can't remember it exactly 'what the mind cannot contain the body has to'
One reason for depression is stress and the reason to contact the forum is to express yourself, which is exactly that, getting something out releasing pressure !.
 
Welcome booknut. I have always escaped into books since I was a child.
But everyone needs to connect with others sometimes. I'm sure you will find some connections here.
 
Welcome to the site~!
SameStars' got how I feel down to the letter; books are great! People often not so, but humans are social creatures, so we'll need at least a little contact from time to time. I just hope you can find that in your time spent here. And hey, you've got quite the attention already, maybe you can find things here? And if you've got something you want to get off your chest, I'm sure there're people here perfectly fine with helping you out when you do.
"Why am I doing this" is something I wouldn't be surprised to hear is a common thing around here; I know I feel the same in just about everything. Maybe it's a tiny hope inside you that desperately wants to grow, maybe it's something else.
I've got no experience in dealing with depression, or people with it, but I'm sure there're at least a few on the site, so maybe they can help?
Anyway, you want to be an author? Sounds fun. If you want someone to edit, beta or proofread, then you've got a volunteer in me; I love reading and helping people out, so it's perfectly fine with me.
As for people to talk to, I'm sure you'll find at least one person; ask around maybe, I dunno. At the very least, I'd be willing to.
So... that's all I've got for now.
 
Oh my. Book Nut here, too!! What kinds of books do you like? Post a Shelfie! :-)
 
Thanks to everyone who posted.
I did not expect such a rapid reponse.
I will not be showing photos of myself.

I rarely read a book cover to cover. Most of my library is nonfiction and I mainly like to graze, picking up something here, something there. I also really like the tactility of books, their feel in the hand.
 
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I do the same thing I remember the first time I read a whole book was a biography about Elvis Presley.
We have a set of Encyclopaedia Britannicas and I've grazed them for the last 40 years .I like the atlas section as it's from the 1960s and some of the countries were still part of the British Empire so they gave them different colours .I didn't care about them being part of the British Empire I just liked the colours.
 
Hi & Welcome,
Don't be afraid to write stories. There are writers sites and you can write them there and only you can see them.
 
welcome @booknut
I often feel I am doing my posts wrong. But I do them nevertheless.
My son stutters. Stuttering can be really stressful for him, at times. He is in high school and doing well.
~ k
 
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