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Personal Rant/Stutter Discord Rant I'm sorry for how poorly structured this rant is going to be, but I am mainly putting my thoughts to text. I'm not even depressed, I'm genuinely just so sick of stupid fucking bullshit and how little opportunities I've truly had in life in comparison to many of those around me not only in accordance to stuttering. I wish the loneliness I feel on nobody on this earth, I just want somebody to talk to on a consistent basis like back in the day playing video games after school. I know I've obviously grown older and so have those around me and it isn't always possible, but the flakiness of those around me is starting to get to me. The last second ditching, or some bullshit excuse not to go do something is so mentally exhausting it's not even funny. You could say, "Just find new friends" I wish I could, my current job is working part time at a school, so finding friends there is out the window, I've tried making friends online but it always falls into the same cycle of (Meet new people --> be friends for a couple months --> someone does something weird/something weird happens/group phases out due to personal obligations --> repeat.) I have no brothers or sisters, I live in a lower middle class neighborhood, I'm about to be 24 and at the end of the day, I stutter. I applied to get a masters in social work this coming spring semester to one day hopefully help veterans but if I get denied I might just sacrifice myself to a military branch for the rest of my life because I have no sense of community in my life along with at least being able to go in as a lieutenant as I have a degree, and being able to have decent pay/not have to pay for a lot of things due to being in the military. I'm just so fucking tired of thinking, call me stupid or whatever, but I'm so fatigued from having to have a checklist of things any time you wish do anything progressive in life (Education, Business etc...) that being a dumbass who is told what to do everyday and being a slave to the government doesn't actually sound like that worst thing ever. Many may gasp at what I just wrote, but I'm so tired of no opportunity, no sense of community, and the taxing nature of trying to progress up the socioeconomic ladder in life. I know little of what I just wrote is about stuttering but let me get to that, we have a discord and we promote it. But it may just be me, but I rarely join a discord server just to text in servers and talk to other people. What I'm saying as a person who stutters is a living contradiction, but holy shit a server with over 1100 unique people who stutter we should genuinely be getting to know each other with more activity going on in the server than there currently is. Additional subgroups such as art, gaming, music etc... would be a great addition for people to find others who are literally LIKE THEM, from all across the world no less, where else could us stutterers find such a thing. But more often than not, it is just a place where people bitch and moan about their stutter, which is completely valid but shouldn't be the whole identity of a discord server IMO. Maybe I'm being too idealistic in thinking such a thing, but such a unique population being reduced to bitching and moaning doesn't sit right with me when we could be cultivating friendships with those similar to us in similar hobbies we like through a voice call or whatever. If you read through all of this and haven't somehow been affected by my cynicism god bless you