He really hasn't told that many full anecdotes over the years. He's said he 'had no friends' and was 'beaten up' multiple times though, as recently as on the last season of the radioshow and in conjunction to something talking about 'from grade 6'. at other times he's mentioned being bullied and beaten up until he went to college (15 or 16) and was in a different friendship group.phanbanter wrote:
He talks about his own life as a teenager towards the end of the clip as well; what do you think of it? And how much do we know about his young adulthood? All I've seen is his tumblr reply to someone in 2009 where he talks about how some children beat him. Anyone care to elaborate?
most andecdotes he's told are about childhood or late teenagehood so i take the lack of them from the middle years as avoidance.
There were lots of things about the meme video I didn't like, but they're all old complaints about his persona on that channel anyway. what i DID love was the honesty in places without excessive Joe King to smooth it over. that felt fresh and brave. and a week after defending his right to joke about his problems in his liveshow, too. good on you Dan for not mincing your words.
the furry confirmation was nothing short of amazing (finalllly, hah). i actually laughed out loud and had to pause it. i LOVE his not letting it go and his apparent sarcastic bemusement at people reducing it to a sexual kink and not believing him. the separation of it from the 'kinks' part felt very deliberate.
secretagentphan for me it is being uncomfortable in public. i work with the public now through lack if choice in other jobs and also commute 3hrs a day on public transport and that has set back my mental health in the last 18 months considerably. so it's not necessarily a matter of pushing through and it becoming better with exposure (for me, it has gotten worse), as a lot of people assume and which i find a frustrating misunderstanding. i definitely see times this thinking is applied to Dan. especially his achievements which are often cited as proof that 'he's fine', or 'exaggerating', with his own words about his feelings when experiencing (and acheiving) those things discredited.
my own definiton of my functional (I choose that over mild, bc to me that is a bit ambiguous) agoraphobia would be wanting to do a lot more things, so not a lack of interest, but an avoidance of leaving the house alone unless necessary (for work, to buy food etc). the same as you, it changes my mindset and lessens my fear if i'm not alone, and if i had to psychoanalyse it would be the fear of becoming stuck somewhere with no quick escape and embarrassing myself with my behaviour and need to retreat but being unable to, and not being able to get myself home quickly. (i don't experience full-on panic attacks where i can't breathe etc, it's more internalised and slow burning). my agoraphobia used to be dysfunctional, and i spent a few years living alone and being unemployed in my early-mid 20s, for contrast.
I was very interested in Dan's choice of words in that section of the video.
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