had to at one point prepare for a possible future where their family and friends were no longer a support system
public transit
substance abuse
intimacy issues exacerbated by endangering your life by public displays of affection
fuck cops
bad memory
utility related comfort item (The Jacket, The Backpack etc)
violently hating your body as a teen but realizing it’s other people’s perceptions and expectations of it that you hate in your adult life
never fucking going to the doctor
UTIs
everyone in ur friend group has tried to kill themselves
maturity at a young age
flannel
all of u are so surprised that every one of these r applicable….i can tell you exactly why each of them is a universal experience but i bet u can unpack this on ur own….think abt it
“everyone in ur friend group has tried to kill themselves“ oh worm???
real talk tho why are older people always angry for the most ridiculous shit?? like something relatively irritating but completely mundane and insignificant happens and theyre all like………….. Big Mad. why? chill
like my WHOLE ENTIRE FAMILY trahtalked my grandma’s ex for years because he once ate too much cheese at a family dinner like… he just. cut himself a block of cheese that was Too Big for them… and they’ve been mad about this since 2011… saying things like “when you don’t have a proper education you don’t get to eat cheese!!!!!” “if you really want that much cheese at least you should have it in two settings!!!!!!!!!!” “it’s literally inhumane to cut oneself such a big block of cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” like………….. C H I L L alright.
well now that i think about it it’s probably more of a “white french person” kind of thing because i know this girl my age who is constantly mad about how they use LED neons on the Champs-Élysées during christmas time and she’s like….. “i HATE LED LIGHTS i can’t see one WITHOUT WANTING TO PUKE i just CAN’T GO NEAR A LED LIGHT OR ILL DIE” so…