22, been reading and lurking since i was about 19, made a profile in the spring.
the thing that keeps happening is that people find out my age and something changes. not always rudely. mostly it is a kind of amused warmth, like i have said something sweet. i have been told to enjoy my twenties and come back to this later, more than once, by people who i think genuinely meant it nicely.
and then there is the other group, who are extremely interested in my age specifically, and that group has taught me more about caution than anything else this year.
what i actually want is fairly ordinary and fairly slow. i am not in a hurry, i do not want anything intense, i would mostly like to talk to people who are also working this out.
is there a way to be taken seriously at my age or do i just wait? and where are the people my own age, because they are clearly not on the site i am on.
