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Lost_All_Senses posted...

80% of my humor is self-deprecation.

The cool thing is when you do this people around you start feeling comfortable enough to do it themselves. As is with my openness about anxiety. I have a friend that is way more hard headed than me and he's 5 years younger than me. And he started self diagnosing his anxiety and talking to me about it cause I had always explained to him what gives me anxiety and what my theories were on why.

Both these things build strong relationships. I can't do relationships that are only skin deep anymore. Im too grown to be around people too scared to tell me how they feel.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Also when you are always talking about how much of a dumbass you are, it gives people less anxiety around you cause they don't feel like they have to try around you. You just really gotta make sure it's funny and insightful, not just annoying.

for real

i'm a very open and candid guy too, and people definitely respond to it by feeling at ease and opening up themselves
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