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Default May 18, 2023 at 10:20 PM
 
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Originally Posted by alpsych View Post
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Throughout my teens I had multiple challenges adjusting to life in North America (with language fluency, making friends, belonging, fitting in with peers, a permanent sense of being an imposter and outsider, etc) and often isolated myself as a way of coping. -snip-
Me too, but instead of language fluency I tended to speak in an odd pedantic manner. (I write this way, too, don't I? LOL) I think all teens experience these difficulties.

I work as an engineer. Sometimes I get into slump of low confidence, and I'm afraid to finalize a design / circuit / program. So I'll keep simulating it with different tools and refining it. Thankfully there are deadlines I have to meet; otherwise I might never commit to having it go into production.

We call this "analysis paralysis."

My impression is that you're stuck inside your own head with something similar. Like another poster wrote, "Just do it," which I'd translate as "set aside the analysis and begin taking action to connect to society."
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