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Treguna Mekoides posted:Beyond the usual "port in a storm" sort of story I think we all have, I can point to the fact a goon may have genuinely saved my life. In the unspooling, general chatting of the infamous "I married an anime guy in the astral" thread years ago, a goon brought up that a childhood story I told in that "I think this story is funny because I haven't dealt with its events yet" way made it sound like I had bipolar, a mild seizure disorder, or some other serious poo poo wrong with me. Definitely something wrong with the friends who had been treating me that way, too. I was spooked by that. I saw how my behavior had been getting weirder/meaner/shorter through my mid-20s at that point, so I went to the doctor. A new doctor, not the doctor who dismissed my symptoms or questions. That is awesome. That was one of my early favorite threads when I first got here (I still have it in my thread bookmarks, even). It was one of the threads that made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe. I originally discovered Something Awful because someone on another site linked to the Ask Me About Being A Birthday Party Princess thread (which has since dropped off into the archives). I stayed for the other A/T threads, including the "anime guys" one and the religionchat thread, as well as BFC. That brings me to how SA has improved my life. If I hadn't discovered BFC, I wouldn't have YNAB, nor would I have a healthy and forward-thinking attitude toward money. If I hadn't read D&D, I wouldn't understand how privileged I am, how hosed the world is, and what I can do to make some things a little better. On a more personal/spiritual note, I had some incidental exposure to authoritarian fundamentalism as a dumb teenager, and if it hadn't been for Prester Jane's original authoritarian thread and the Slacktivist takedown of the Left Behind series that someone linked to in that thread, I don't know if I would even think it was possible that I could change my perspective on the universe, or that I could start to heal and move forward from that perspective. PJ's perspective shed light on what was happening to the world in a way that makes so much sense to me, and I'm glad I found her.
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