You seemed cool

La Pine OR

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I'm on the spectrum, so excuse me if I sound unusual or intense. People say that all the time. Saw you at the GroceOut, you had a jacket with a bunch of band patches. I was looking at bread, you passed by and we smiled politely. Moved to Gilchrist from Eugene during lockdown, currently trying to find friends in this part of Oregon now that I'm almost fully vaccinated. When I say friends, I literally mean peers, pals, buuuuuuds. It's a long shot, but lmk if you want a new friend. The way I see it, this post-post-modern market economy profits from making all of us ever more entrenched and atomized within our perceived alienation - not limited to the expectations placed on people to pair off, even when it makes no sense - that's not what I'm about, and that's REALLY not the intention I'm trying to put across. Pairing seemingly offers individuals a cure for alienation, while actually making the problem worse, considering the push for social capital to shape and place rigid definitions on human relationships, as well as the interplay of roles, therein. Human connection, at least the current cultural depictions of it, has been reduced to lifestyle marketing. It's all quite sickening and I'm averse to participating in such pre-packaged nonsense. Making genuine friends, focusing love energy on *friends*, seems to be one answer to thwarting such insidious cultural undercurrents. If that sounds too far out, it's nbd either way.