Thanks, Sera! I am most likely to try a smaller forum that is less dramatastic. <!-- s

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Basically, I wonder if it's useful at this point for me to look at other outlets to socialize online when I have more pressing priorities. Friday was my "do-nothing" day, and I wonder if that was a good move, at this point...it took me about three hours total to get through a chapter of one of my texts today, not including the breaks taken because of eye fatigue or information overload. (I really need to get new glasses, and at this point, even polycarbonate would work. I think I've been hesitant because my mental health diagnosis is visible to non-mental-health doctors, including my optometrist. I know he already knows, it's just that it doesn't give me a lot of confidence when he's, like, touching my eyeball.) This forum has been my outlet for more creative thought and identity-building writing. I've actually even started on an article (before I had the information that the forum seems to be nearing the end of its cycle of life) in outline form...this was after the brainstorming that brought up at least three different articles I could write.
I can see what you mean about not having a lot to write about on the forum, when it seems one's already said everything they had to say...I can see a *lot* of interrelatedness in the three articles I thought of -- there's cohesion and a similarity of thought that I suppose could be related to a cohesive identity. I've noticed, with that, that without intervention from outside, things tend to remain stable. So, I mean, without something introducing some dynamism, maybe there is either not a lot of change, or the changes that are occurring are in relation to offline things and are not posted about. I guess it's like being with the same group of friends all the time and not socializing outside of that, and everyone already knows everyone else...so there aren't a lot of arguments, but it's like what do you talk about, you know?
There are also only certain things I'd want to publicly connect with myself (moving forward from this point), considering the adage that no internet discourse is really fully anonymous. Not something I really understood well when I was 20, but something to consider when money is involved. <!-- s

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OK, now I'm just trailing off. I'll end this now. <!-- s

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