>>802631The next sentence of my long rant states that my extreme self-consciousness comes from my parents training me at a young age to mask my Asperger’s in fear that I would get labeled/diagnosed, which led to me having very bad social skills, making no friends in school, and just focusing on academics. I elaborate later that my crush/love for her has become so consuming that I feel like a completely different person then I was before I saw her, and I have practically lost interest in everything but her, as my narrow interests (history and Marxism) no longer truly interest me anymore. History and Marxism are now just things that I continue to engage in out of pure inertia/habit and the fact that I have to pretend to have interests beyond my love for her, due to the fact that I know that the odds of it working with her are really low. This means that if I could find a way to have a real conversation with her I would be interested in whatever she is interested in (it literally doesn’t matter what it is, if she likes it I will like it) just to be able to have something in common with her to increase the odds of success. The problem is that I don’t want her to know that all I am interested in is her because then she will think I am a creep, lol.
It is also very interesting from a psychological standpoint how falling in love with her has given me a very different perspective on both history and Marxism. I will probably get laughed at by most on this website for saying this, but having strong romantic feelings for her has made me become a much softer person (I used to be a big edgelord) who is increasingly turned off by the dark, depressing, and violent nature of most of human history, though I still can read about it, get high grades in it, and eventually teach it, because it is the only academic area I really know about and the only career path that I could do (as I said earlier I am not psychologically cut out for flipping burgers, digging ditches, cleaning toilets, or sitting in a cubicle). Additionally, the whole concept of “revolution” that lies at the center of Marxism has really lost its luster for me, as actually feeling love for another human being has naturally made me very disturbed by the thought of all the innocent people that inevitably suffer and die during a “revolution”. I understand the counter argument that countless innocent people
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