/c/Vent: Vent about your life here

sometimes it feels like my circumstances are entirely unique, since nobody in the privacy sphere really talks about the isolation that can come with cutting off your ties to data harvesters. but i guess my isolation runs deeper than that.

i deleted my instagram account recently after a few months of having it. i originally made my account reluctantly after some online friends asked me to. i was already a bit of an isolated person, but the pursuit of online privacy amplifies it. not to mention, i'm a neurodivergent queer person in a small town.

i dropped out of school after years of my disabilities going unacommodated, elementary school through high school. i'm now freshly 18 and just kind of existing. i've been looking for a job with no luck since i was 16. most of my friends i had at school have moved off to college, and the few left aren't a real pleasure to be with, so i avoid them.

i have no community in my town, in either school or job form, and it's hard to keep online friends when i'm constantly drifting away from the platforms they use to talk to one another. it's hard to make friends, too. i feel like, in order to click with someone, we must both possess an extremely specific set of compatible traits, or else conversations fall flat. when i narrow down my sights to people that only exist on privacy-friendly platforms, it becomes even harder to find someone—let alone a group of people—compatible with the way i socialize.

advice appreciated, but i'm mostly just putting this here to get it off my chest