I mean stuff like dating as a teenager, having a proper first kiss, the romanticised version of what you need to do growing up etc
For me this thought has occurred due to seeing in television what young people are typically doing as they grow up
Never have I fallen in love with someone properly, or even know how I’d go about doing something like this.
Yes, definitely
I missed out on the milestones of getting married and having kids so sort of.
I feel like i met most of the milestones of youth, but I also feel like the last 20 years have been a total loss because of this damn disease. Milestones like finishing my university degree, meeting a woman I like, getting married, having kids. Those things just don’t seem to be in the cards. I make enough money to support myself but I couldn’t support a family, or at least not the way I would want to.
I was just talking about this to someone yesterday actually. My teen years were a mess, in hindsight probably my first experience of psychosis, turning into major depression by the time I Was Eighteen.
I met my first girlfriend when I was19, probably the closest to a healthy relationship I have ever had. It seems like I have been playing catch-up my whole life
Like others, I feel like I missed out on the family experience. I’m not sure I have ever been in a position to have managed that properly
Some of them yes, some no. Hit a lot of ABnormal milestones, so there’s that.
I didn’t start missing out on milestones until I was about 27. Unless you count failing university! After 27, the house of cards started coming down.
Yes. I’ve had a very sheltered and dysfunctional life with very little to show for it.
i missed out on all the career milestones, promotions, raises, things like that. which would have allowed me to buy a house and stuff, but other than that i had an eventful life.
i miss it yea… i wish i could have had a “normal” life for sure.
I never had a prom to go to, bc I dropped out after 11th grade, never went to college, never married, no kids.
But I never felt as though I missed out. I’m happy with who I am, and where I’m going. I don’t think anything is out of place.
I missed out on a lot because of being in the closet, having cancer, and my MI. I still got more than some people.
Since being ill I haven’t really achieved much. Woould have liked to get married and had children. I’m 37. Maybe I still have time. How old can women have kids till?
You probably have at least another 10 years but fertility declines as you get older.
I was friendly with a girl I met about 6 years before meeting my wife. Sex was never on the agenda. The compatibility level was low. I think it lasted as long as it did because my parents disapproved.
I had crushes when I was a kid but didn’t get a gf until I was 20-21y.o. as I was busy studying and hanging out with friends before.
Also was working full time during summer and sometimes part time during school and university.
Never really experienced mutual love in a romantic relationship.
I cared about my wife but she never loved me back.
We were both very ill when we got married.
I’m surprised it lasted 7 years.
She had mentall illness? I think its harder for two mentally ill persons to be together, also much higher risk of genetic defects like mental illness.
She had borderline personality disorder, DID and was most likely a sociopath.