About five-and-a-half years ago, I was living overseas: unemployed; depressed; alone; fat and unhealthy and; completely lost.

I came to Reddit very late, mostly because I was looking for interaction with Anglophones closer to my age, even if that was online. And because I was having issues with my father, I gravitated to a subverse about narcissistic parents.

Everything was cool for a week or so, but over the proceeding two weeks, I started to notice what seemed like a “party-line”, or even, “absoluteness”. I felt that it was a little unfair that the advice always seemed to be “cut contact with your parent/s”.

What broke the camel’s back was a reply to a comment on a post. The post was a younger woman who was having a hard time with her parents and thought maybe they were narcissistic. Not a long or detailed post, but all (almost all) the comments were “no contact”. One guy pointed-out what I didn’t have the guts too. Essentially “I can’t put my finger on it, but maybe the members of subverse are a little off or not helpful”. He expressed into words (better than what I've written just now) what I was thinking.

The inevitable reply was extremely passive-aggressive, “sweetie, are you okay? Whatever do you mean”… that sort of shit.

Shortly after, FPH was banned and I followed them to Voat.

I was extremely sensitive coming to Voat, but freedom overthrew any other fears I had. For example, I cringed when people said “faggot”, felt bad for niggers and even blocked FPH.

(On that last one, I eventually unblocked it and the verse motivated me to build up).

So, this is to say thank you to that one guy who had the balls to stand-up to the passive-aggressive cows on Reddit and to influence the life of one man, for the better, forever.

And thanks to all you homos for being there for me.

I love you all!