steepholm

I'm glad that some of the more vicious personalities in my school didn't have social media to do their bullying on, and to an extent that my adolescent affectations are not preserved for eternity on a server. But I'd much rather have had the sources of information and potential community. In fact, I'd have settled for not being told, by every source of information that I did access from the age of 14 to 20-odd, that people like me occurred in such statistically insignificant numbers that we might as well not exist. Being the sort of child who believes books, I believed them. (I completely loathe those rose-tinted 'in my day we played from dawn to dusk in the streets/fields' memes, but I'll spare you my rant about that.)