Who am I?
Who I am
Just a guy
Well, in the end I’m just a guy, right? I am in my early thirties. I have a job and my own place to live. I have a wife, a dog and a cat. I enjoy hiking, driving and working on cars, playing videogames, watching movies, reading and sometimes writing. I tend to live in my head, thinking about things or concepts all day. In another time period, I’d probably have been a philosopher with a few bad books out on the market, but these days… These days I don’t function so well in society. I don’t know if that’s my fault or society’s, really.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
In late 2023, I was diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder. I had been struggling with long bouts of severe depression and a permanent state of heavy social anxiety ever since high school and I figured there had to be more to it. And there was. Avoidant Personality Disorder is a very complex thing that is quite understudied in the general mental health sphere. For the most part, I figured out my own approach to tackling it on a day by day basis, with some help from therapy and traditional approaches. This blog will dive way deeper into that eventually.
Unconventional living
I’m not gonna lie: I derive joy from colouring outside the lines. If society tells me I have to do something, I kind of want to do the opposite. It’s childish, but that isn’t such a bad thing. Children have fun. So I try to have fun. I drive weird cars, I wear weird clothes and I am in a weird open relationship. I enjoy being weird and being around weird people.