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20 Feb 2026, 9:07 am

My life is getting darker and darker. I’m not sure why. My wife said she doesn’t like my ‘dark and autistic lifestyle’ and neither do I. Maybe it’s the lack of sunshine during winter. I’m not sure. The world is getting heavy. How do you enjoy the day?



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20 Feb 2026, 11:49 am

I went through a dark period between the ages 32 and 34. Someone dropped me as a friend and I got angry and spiraled into a UK Punk lifestyle. My parents were worried. My mum kept asking when I was going to go back to my old hairstyle, the Beatle haircut. It got to the point that I saw a monster evert time I looked in the mirror in the Summer of 2009. I did go back to the Beatle haircut and started listening to The Kinks again.


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20 Feb 2026, 1:11 pm

You mentioned your wife not liking your dark & autistic lifestyle so I'm wondering if you've been masking & are reaching your limit. Perhaps your dark because you feel your not being accepted & cant be yourself.


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20 Feb 2026, 2:05 pm

I think humor might help.

(It helps me.)


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21 Feb 2026, 12:35 am

nick007 wrote:
You mentioned your wife not liking your dark & autistic lifestyle so I'm wondering if you've been masking & are reaching your limit. Perhaps your dark because you feel your not being accepted & cant be yourself.



It could be that I’m at my limit. I don’t know if I have been masking. I don’t really understand what masking is. If I have been, then I have been masking since I was a young child.