Teen Gothic

I'm sharing it here because it seems related even though the sub is talking about the music.

There is something about self-expression that is super hard if you have social anxiety or if you grew up in a conservative home.

Even years before I got into the goth scene as a young girl I was very anxious to stand out or look strange especially from where I come from.

The thing is that I wanted to stand out but my social anxiety together with the conservative and primitive home I come from I couldn't.

I still look at goths and say "one day I can look like that without caring what everyone or my family says".

I'm also not a social person so it's much harder to find "people like you".

So how many of you had this problem and overcame it ?

I think there should be a rule blocking those type of posts here, and there should be a subreddit called something like r/newtogoth. That subreddit could be for people who are new to goth (baby bats) only, and could be for asking questions and learning.

Hi, I'm hoping some of you might be interested in checking out this new sub. I've met too many people from underground/alt countercultures in sobriety spaces that didn't have a place to express their cultural identity really openly. I wanted to try and create that space here on reddit. We don't follow any particular philosophy of sobriety, and put harm reduction above binary, black and white approaches. If you're sober or just curious, why not come and check us out? Thanks for reading this.

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I bought this months ago for him as soon as I found one for sale!

People ask me why I am always alone and try to socialize with the other goths? Because others have BETRAYED me that's why. They did things to me that I would never do to them.

That's why I, unlike most goths, am a loner. I don't socialize with other goths, due to too many easily upset and moody people. I am not having any more shenanigans and I cannot take it anymore, due to being on the autistic spectrum. If I don't like you, I will not socialize with you.

What should I do? Why am I the only one who keeps to himself and doesn't socialize? People, even those who are in the gothic subculture, see me as the weird one. And I feel like I am the world's most different man of all time.