Maybe this is what you should concentrate on, rather than trying to convince us you’ve changed things you’re not aware of…
The things I’m talking about having changed are things like having violent mood swings, etc. Those things very definitely HAVE changed. You don’t know me, so your saying differently doesn’t matter at all.
I don’t remember you being known for violent mood swings. You were known for asking for questions and then rejecting each suggestion, which you did in the necklace clasp thread.
I give consideration to each suggestion, but sometimes for my specific purpose/needs/situation, none of them is a good fit. That’s just the way it is. It’s not an intentional desire to not take advice, it’s just a case of there being reasons that for me, for that situation, the suggestions don’t work. Sometimes that upsets people because they think they have the perfect solution. I’ve taken plenty of advice that I’ve received on this board. You just remember the times I didn’t because you want to. It’s confirmation bias.
I used to be, a long time ago. Since then, I’ve changed. That’s why I’m not known for them now.
Are you talking about the thread where I was looking for something to hold my engagement ring?
maybe you’re not violent, but at a quick glance you’ve made something like 200 posts over the past 4 days. i realize it’s a holiday weekend and a lot of people are off work and such, but that still seems a little excessive and manic.
I mainly post in the MPSIMS type threads. I rarely clutter up a GQ or GD thread with lots of posts, so I don’t see that as a problem.
I guess I’m a long time member, short time lurker, because I’ve never seen any meltdown threads, nor any posts about your son. If not for this thread, I never would have known how contentious you are. I think we’ve only interacted in two threads, one on your wedding and one on men in speedos. I guess because of the “Hi Opal” jokes, I’ve always assumed you were one of the more popular posters.
I guess what I’m trying to say that if you’ve spent a lot of time attention whoring, some of us are too oblivious or self absorbed to have noticed. Good on you if you were a wreck and now aren’t.
I’ve also learned what a freakin’ Buckeye is. A horse chestnut?! Really? Why didn’t anyone ever tell me?
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She really dug the commercials as well, huh?
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doesnt matter where you hang out, clutter is clutter!
online you seem the same to me, have you changed irl?
Glad you feel better Opal.
I do what I’ve always done- read what interests me, ignore what doesn’t, and try not to get invested in stuff on a message board.
So…
I tend not to read a lot of your posts, and thus haven’t formed much of an opinion about whether or not you have changed, but I hope that you continue to feel that you are progressing in a healthy direction with your life.
Extremely
This is what I do as well. I skip a lot of people’s posts. It’s just easier that way.
You didn’t join until 2004, so you wouldn’t have known what I used to be like (the stuff I’m talking about, anyway.)
registration dates don’t necessarily reflect how long one has been reading the board. just saying.
So you’re referring to stuff that happened in 2003 at the latest, and you’re just posting about now?!
There are quite a few people who formed an opinion about what sort of person I was based on the way I was back then, and who still judge me based on that opinion of me. This thread was mainly geared toward those types of posters, yes. Over the last 10 years I’ve changed to an incredible degree.
Yeah, that was the one. In that and a lot of your postings, you do come off as really into yourself. I mean, your mom didn’t want you to talk during games, and you interpret that as this scarring experience, whereas most people would just figure, “OK, Mom loves sports.”
Ok, see I didn’t think of that as a necklace clasp thread, since what I was looking for was more of a charm. And if people got miffed that I didn’t like the option they found, they need to get over it. It was a question of me looking for a specific functionality and an aesthetic that appealed to me–very subjective. I rejected the ones that didn’t appeal to me. What was I supposed to do, buy and wear jewelry I didn’t like to preserve the feewings of someone on the internet?
People don’t know or care if you’re going to actually use their suggestions. They do know or care whether or not the trouble they took to make the suggestion seems appreciated or not.