Some of these issues have waxed or waned with the intervening years, but specifically I’m thinking about my teenage self. If I haven’t tipped my hand already, I’m talking about myself. He knows-it isn’t true, but he knows it the way you know these things-that he’s too weird and weak and pathetic to be of any value to people unless he could do something special. His hang-ups sometimes hurt the people who care for him, which only makes him hate himself more, continuing the cycle. He doesn’t know how to connect with the people around him, because he’s too afraid of their judgment to just be who he is. He is terrified of confrontation, but also of any kind of emotional intimacy.
This is the story of a boy-a sad, confused boy entering his teenage years with little in the way of social skills and even less in the way of self-esteem. For just $3 a month you will have access to our full library of Audio content, plus three new uploads every week. ‘In Defense of Shinji Ikari’ is now available on Audio, written and read by Alex Boruff, exclusively for our Patreon supporters.
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