>>82061157>What do you feel like you need to feel like you're more than just 'nothing'? Like the other guy said, being a highschool teacher is still something. At least you get lots of time off! Most jobs don't give you that at all.This is gonna sound bad but desu I've always just wanted someone to accept me for who I am and try to understand me.
I never had that, never growing up, never now. I know that I'm weird, I'm not like other people, I don't think like other people. I've always felt alien.
My parents didn't love me, they just saw me as a tool to brag about. "My son is so smart I must be a great parent!"
It never mattered what I wanted, I was nothing.
I didn't want to be an Engineer or a Teacher. I wanted to be an archeologist. Dig up fossils and study human history. that was what I loved.
Or, I wanted to work in a Genetics Lab and study DNA and CRISPR.
But I was never given that option. My parents said, "Do electrical engineering, it pays better than those things!", all they've ever cared about is money and bragging.
So I went to college, I studied what they told me to study, and I graduated with High Honors because that is what I've always done. I was abused if I didn't get an A in something growing up.
People told me, "Why didn't you just run away and do what you wanted!?", I've never thought of that. I didn't really understand how housing and loans worked because nobody ever taught me that.
I didn't want to be homeless, it was easier to just do what my parents said and stay the course. Like I said, I've always been lazy and just did the path of least resistance.
Idk... I hate myself. But I've always been good at what I do.
Everyone loves me, they say I'm a really good teacher and I get great reviews on my analysis days and my students like me. But I've never felt like I deserved any of that, and I've never loved me.
I just have always felt like I'm nothing. A nothing person who had his entire life decided for him by his parents. nothing person.