>>12871547I smoked weed with some friends for a few years after high school. My social skills improved rather dramatically. It’s easy to hold a conversation when you can talk about getting stoned.
Similar thing happened after I got a girlfriend. A lot of my crippling insecurities were slowly whittled away. I think the cure isn’t the drugs, but it lies in exiting your comfort zone and not falling into a permanent (comfortable) adolescence.
There comes a time to put childish things behind you. I think consumerist culture has suppressed this necessary right of initiation (funko pop sales would plummet without autists)
However, you need a little confidence in yourself. Generally a man’s life will follow certain archetypical trajectories, but the modern world has resulted in a lot of men being knocked off their course. Hence the “man child” epidemic
