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Why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself?

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  1. aphoenix
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    There are a lot of people like this who wonder why they cannot get or hold onto a partner because it turns out that most people desire a partner who is a whole person on their own. They can't see...

    There are a lot of people like this who wonder why they cannot get or hold onto a partner because it turns out that most people desire a partner who is a whole person on their own. They can't see that by clinging like this, chasing "being in love" they're not actually going to experience being in love with someone. They're just in love with the idea of love, not with finding a companion to share yourself with.

    All it needed was him wearing a "but I'm a Nice Guy" t-shirt or something.

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    mrbig
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    That’s interesting. Alice Falcão does similar in Portuguese, both in Porta dos Fundos and her album. Sarah Silverman would be a better example in English. Love can certainly be an escape. At the...

    That’s interesting. Alice Falcão does similar in Portuguese, both in Porta dos Fundos and her album. Sarah Silverman would be a better example in English. Love can certainly be an escape. At the same time it’s hard to think of a more worthy goal. An equilibrium is certainly ideal.

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    1. [4]
      Kuromantis
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      Neat, although Jreg's main focus is on vaguely political/ideological humor, not love and relationships, so I'm not familiar with anyone you mentioned. I'm assuming you mean escaping from your own...

      That’s interesting. Alice Falcão does similar in Portuguese, both in Porta dos Fundos and her album. Sarah Silverman would be a better example in English.

      Neat, although Jreg's main focus is on vaguely political/ideological humor, not love and relationships, so I'm not familiar with anyone you mentioned.

      Love can certainly be an escape. At the same time it’s hard to think of a more worthy goal. An equilibrium is certainly ideal.

      I'm assuming you mean escaping from your own personal failures and situation, the theme of the video. Because you didn't make it clear and I as an autistic person am self-obligated to fill in the blank. (Hi-5s in "missing jigsaw piece on head")

      Anyway, "finding love" can probably be something you spend an eternity doing to distract yourself from "unrelated" issues in your life, but I'm not exactly sure how would you be able to maintain the assumption that you don't need to solve your problems to be loved like the male character in the video without an incel forum to circlejerk with or something similar.

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        mrbig
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        Last time I checked you don’t have an actual diagnostic, right? Anyway, you guessed correctly.

        Last time I checked you don’t have an actual diagnostic, right? Anyway, you guessed correctly.

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          Kuromantis
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          IIRC I do, but it's from when I was a small kid, and my autism was much worse, and AFAIK this stuff doesn't go away by itself and can't be cured as if it was a disease. Either way I went to CAPS...

          Last time I checked you don’t have an actual diagnostic, right?

          IIRC I do, but it's from when I was a small kid, and my autism was much worse, and AFAIK this stuff doesn't go away by itself and can't be cured as if it was a disease. Either way I went to CAPS for multiple years and that's pretty serious.

          1. mrbig
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            So you do have a diagnostic. Sorry about that.

            So you do have a diagnostic. Sorry about that.

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  3. Kuromantis
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    The description (minus the stuff in the parentheses) is this:

    The description (minus the stuff in the parentheses) is this:

    Why talk (or even think) about yourself when you can obsess over someone else?