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How old were you when you realized nobody really cares about you ?

submitted by anon to askanon 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 19:43:28 ago (+24/-0)     (askanon)

I was about 12 or 13
Fromaround age 5-11 we had a bunch of kids in the neighborhood , lots of kids about 2-3 years older than me.
We (so I thought) were like family.
Ffwd a couple years and they all ghosted me. Around that time I realized my parents were involved with their own lives, they loved me sure I guess, but they really didn't know or care what was going on in my life.
Then I realized nobody really gives a shit about anyone.
That's tough for a kid, 4+ decades later it still kinda fucks with my mind


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[ - ] anon 1853970 15 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 22:04:36 ago (+15/-0)

As a male people love you for what you can provide for them.

Here is the kicker.

Outside of your own wife and kids, no one needs shit from you. Not rrally. People can successfully live fully isolated now.

Final blow? Your own wife and kids can live without you thanks to enslaving ideology like child support and alimony.

[ - ] anon 2424258 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 07:12:43 ago (+1/-0)

Women have been made over thousands of years to not love men the same as men love women. For thousands of years, tribes would fight and the men would die. Women would be taken as property or wives. To survive, women had to learn to love, or pretend to love, their new conqueror. The truly faithful women all died out.

That's why it is statistically true that women move on from breakups much quicker than men. And that's why women only love their husbands for as long as their husband is providing for them. As soon as the providing stops, a countdown starts until the end of the relationship. Some women can last longer than others.
It sucks, but that is female nature. And that is why men must have ambition and a desire to succeed and improve constantly.

[ - ] anon 1853970 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 12:04:38 ago (+0/-0)

No. Reality is more base that your ideas.

Our species need children.
Children cost resources.
Women cannot afford to keep male partners who could not provide resources.
Because the risk is literally extinction.

The foundation of our societies is women and prividing for them.
Tribes warred because of resources were finite.

A maori tribe that didn't strip mine a food resource like a seal colony bare. Would be leaving food for other tribes.

Food meant babies, meant more warriors.

So they would strip land bare like locusts, migrate on blindly, run into another tribe . The land could not support two tribes period.
Conflict was inevitable and violent.
More warriors won.

This is why all savages were migratory.

Oh and why shitskins are flooding usa...

[ - ] Her0n 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 07:34:51 ago (+1/-0)

Maybe if all you are worth is your paycheck.

Holy fuck lol

I'm worth more than a paycheck and my wife treats me great for it. In past relationships I was only worth my paycheck and it was a terrible time.

[ - ] anon 1853970 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 11:53:35 ago (+1/-0)

Mate.
I feel sorry for you. You don't grasp the reality of your situation in this society.

Quit your job.
At some point the whispers will begin of what a deadbeat you are.

Your wifes friends will work to sabotage your relationship with her.

And ultimately society will provide all the tools your wife needs to curb stomp you.

A typical safe test any male can do to confirm this:

Try and spend a day idle on the couch while your wife is doing housework.

Watch and listen for snarky comments.

[ - ] Her0n 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 12:27:23 ago (+0/-0)

I've been lazing about today. The Mrs is doing her work.

She hasn't said a single negative word to me.

We grow and raise a vast majority of what we need and consume here.

My worth is far greater than the amount of resources I can gather at any point.

My wife also knows I work in sprints. Put out weeks worth of quality work in a couple of days thanks to superior planning affords me time off to do what I feel like.

I do know what the typical lifestyle entails because I've lived it. I decided it wasn't for me and decided to make a drastic change.

I live on a homestead and in the winter I design, build, and program automation that replaces basic laborer jobs.

We are fine in many ways thanks to me, and my wife who spent over two decades wage slaving knows how good she has it with me.

[ - ] anon 1853970 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 12:07:08 ago (+0/-0)

Oh and fyi.
I know my place in this world.

My wife and kids love me.

I am not at all bitter about them loving me being conditional upon my providence.

Still don't believe me about male love is always conditional?

Take a look around. World is full of millions of unloved men. Listen to their stories...

[ - ] Her0n 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 12:31:38 ago (+1/-0)

I don't disagree, what I'm saying is you need to rise above it if you want to feel good about yourself. If you actually know your worth and it stops at the end of your paycheck I have to ask, what the fuck do you do to improve your life?

If all you have is money, it better be a ton of it.

I fix things, solve problems, give comfort, etc.

You're telling me you don't do this? I find that hard to believe

[ - ] anon 2534129 9 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 20:51:33 ago (+9/-0)

Have kids and even you won't matter to yourself anymore! Then you get to solve the problem for yourself for your kids!

[ - ] anon 2940284 [op] 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 18:15:49 ago (+0/-0)

Op has grown kids

[ - ] anon 3980203 6 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 22:03:24 ago (+6/-0)

I've told my oldest a million times if you don't care about yourself why should I when her saw her demonstrate behaviors I wasn't a fan of.

What were you doing at 12-13 and on?

[ - ] xmasskull 6 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 20:06:02 ago (+8/-2)

This says more about YOU, than anything else.

[ - ] FreeinTX 3 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 20:55:48 ago (+3/-0)

I agree. I'm purdy sure that I'm cared about. To assume other people aren't is kinda weird.

[ - ] WhiteCollarCriminal 3 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 21:28:49 ago (+3/-0)

Isn't that why we get married and have chiles? So we can mess up their haids as well? 🤣😂

[ - ] xmasskull 2 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:01:23 ago (+2/-0)

Not by design, it just turns out that way.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 0 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 20:37:01 ago (+3/-3)

What a stupid response.

[ - ] xmasskull 2 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:03:17 ago (+4/-2)

You Finished sucking nigger cock for the night?

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 03:28:29 ago (+1/-1)

A dumb boomer obsessed with nigger cock. Gay, kill yourself.

[ - ] puremadness 5 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:57:06 ago (+5/-0)

I was pretty young when I realized no one cared about you.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 5 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 20:36:40 ago (+5/-0)

It's jarring. Especially when it comes to dealing with women, she never really loves you, only what you can do for her and her social status. 100% conditional.

It's ok tho anon, we love ya plenty!

[ - ] anon 2940284 [op] -1 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 18:24:42 ago (+0/-1)

I hate liars. Fuck You

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 18:32:44 ago (+0/-0)

Cope and seethe.

[ - ] anon 1469577 4 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 01:26:19 ago (+4/-0)

10. After my moms death. My dad wished I'd been aborted and my siblings both shared the sentiment.

[ - ] anon 1572807 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 01:43:11 ago (+1/-0)

Wtf, why? They blamed you?

[ - ] anon 1469577 4 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 02:16:59 ago (+4/-0)

Mom found out she had cancer during the pregnancy. If she'd aborted and started treatment, she might have lived. She didn't, tried to start it 3 years after the fact, and died.

[ - ] anon 1572807 0 points 4 monthsFeb 8, 2025 23:54:19 ago (+0/-0)

That is shitty. But on the other hand, youll always know your mom cared so much she gave up her own life for you. Live for her, make her proud

[ - ] IsraelRespecter -1 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 07:30:33 ago (+0/-1)

how the fuck did you recover from that?

[ - ] Sector2 4 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 21:36:12 ago (+4/-0)

There is a distinction between 'caring' and the ability to care in an effective way.

[ - ] anon 1049280 3 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 00:09:02 ago (+3/-0)*

I left my home state at 19 and moved to Florida and not a single one of my real "friends" ever came to visit me, only one friend who was just my so called "best" friends younger brother came to visit and he was only there on a business trip so he was just being kind really and wasn't there just to see me or anything like that. I used to run back home and spend hundreds of dollars on these lavish trips just to couch hop and be forgotten about most of the time. I even managed to move back home for a bit but I ended up working over night so I saw old friends even less, I ended up going back to Florida because my family won a lot of money (that's another story). On my last trip I was finally able to see the writing on the wall, there was nothing left there for me and I was desperately clinging on to a life that no longer existed. My "best" friends wife contacted me and begged me to come in on short notice for his birthday, I was not working at the time and I came into town with 40 dollars in my pocket which was then taken by the airport because somehow my bag gained a pound on the trip. So yeah, coupled with terrible things happening left and right, falling out with friends, being forgotten about once the party was over.... they used me as some cheap prop and even had the nerve to ask me to pay back for the plane ticket that I couldn't afford at the time. Disgusting, it was the worst experience you could imagine and that was 12 years ago, I haven't gone back since and I never will... not till one of my actual "friends" comes to visit me. After years of running back like a child, I finally was fed up with it and realized it takes a friend to be a friend, I was walking on a two way street that had but one soul... one foolish soul who gave everything for his so called "friends" and got nothing back in return, not even the basic requirements of a friendship. The only good to come from all of it was the harsh realization that I never really had any true friends, they were just people who happened to go to the same school as me and shared similar interests. You never wanted to believe that story that your parents told you how that once high school was over, everyone would move on and forget you ever existed. I swore up and down that it wouldn't happen to me, not my group of friends... we were all blood brothers... right? How fucking naive I truly was, I was nothing but a jester in a courtyard to a council of kings in their own minds. The memories were good, I enjoyed my time with them but when it came time for them to be a friend and try to be there for me when I needed them most, they all turned their backs on me and moved on. Hell I would have done the same thing the minute I got to florida if I only knew... if I wasn't so Goddamn naive. I can't change the past but I can change how I react when they try to contact me and talk about the old days and the old stories, I'm sorry but my nostalgia pool has run dry for a group of people that didn't even bat a fucking eye when I was completely erased from their lives.... nope. Just, " man you were so funny, you need to come back and make us laugh again" that's all I ever fucking was, just a "funny guy". Know your worth and do for you and your family because those people that you called friends? You never really meant much, you served as a means to an end for entertainment, and when it came time for them to be a shoulder to ever lean on... let's just say that you should never take the weight off your own feet lest you fall. I leaned onto people that literally pushed me away when it came time for them to reciprocate my friendship, you'd think that after a decade of me running back home that they could even just plan one trip? One surprise road trip to grab me and have the time of our lives like we used to? Nope, it was just a fantasy that I would have to forget about ever coming to fruition, the epic friend story ended in the most bitter way full of resentment and toxicity. Naivety would ultimately be my downfall but I swore that when the time came for me to rebuild myself that I'd put foundations in place that would never allow me to fall so far ever gain. I became strong again on my own as destiny had always intended for me, my only regret is that I had not found this path sooner... I would have so much more in life at an earlier period. I digress though, it's all water under the bridge. I'm not bitter anymore but I will tell my story to whoever cares to listen and I'd be lying if I said that telling these stories didn't bring back all the pain, feelings of abandonment and resentment from all those years ago.

[ - ] anon 1572807 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 01:56:42 ago (+1/-0)

That sucks bro. Similar here. Lived in TX for years and coming home to visit a lot of people just change over the years. The friend who I now realize was always the one to rally and get everyone together constantly died 10 years ago(crazy, its been that long). I moved back home last year and only one friend of mine has even been out to my new place.

[ - ] anon 1049280 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 23:54:06 ago (+0/-0)

It's a tough pill to swallow but just make sure to take care of yourself first and foremost because most of those so called friends don't really fucking care if we live or die. There's some good ones, just not a whole lot. Time truly is a valuable thing because it will always reveal the true nature of things if you have enough of it.

[ - ] anon 1654435 -1 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 05:33:51 ago (+0/-1)

Bruh you need therapy

[ - ] anon 1049280 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 23:50:45 ago (+0/-0)*

Why? So some faggot with a salary they don't deserve can whisper sweet nothings into my ear while they wave dangerous mind altering pharmaceuticals in my face? No thanks, I'll stick to being an actual adult and coping with life's inconveniences. Those sentiments were from decades ago and I merely shared them, if you think raw thoughts require therapy then I don't know what to tell you other than to stop being such a fucking faggot and watch your tone with me boy, don't use those nigger terms when addressing me.

[ - ] anon 1654435 0 points 4 monthsFeb 8, 2025 17:37:46 ago (+0/-0)

Ok internet tough guy.

[ - ] anon 1049280 0 points 4 monthsFeb 9, 2025 21:00:58 ago (+0/-0)

Go back to reddit or twitter or whatever festering shithole you crawled out of, you're probably one of those broccoli headed fag gen z wankers, using terms like bruh is very telling.🖕🏻

[ - ] anon 1654435 0 points 4 monthsFeb 10, 2025 05:22:14 ago (+0/-0)

lmao ok big fella

[ - ] anon 1049280 0 points 4 monthsFeb 12, 2025 14:30:40 ago (+0/-0)

Find the nearest cliff and go make Isaac Newton proud you fucking faggot.

[ - ] anon 4112397 3 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 22:17:04 ago (+3/-0)

...my change of attitude towards everything came while drifting down the Nile in a basket made of reeds

[ - ] albatrosv15 2 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 04:39:56 ago (+2/-0)

Had periods of life when i was very successful and very broke. Every time i was being successful, everyone "loved" me. The moment i was broke or related, no one wanted to hear from me. It's all fake and gay.
Now i hide my wealth. Fuck them.

[ - ] anon 4277867 2 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 00:50:13 ago (+2/-0)

Finding out 911 was an inside job was pretty intense. watching it all 10 years later with the new knowledge. Why did they(Jews) do it. The truth aways will come out. And with current events it still will

[ - ] anon 2243007 2 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:45:42 ago (+2/-0)

I’m an only child. I’ve always been comfortable alone. Start out with caring about yourself, then the rest won’t matter.

[ - ] anon 1395006 0 points 4 monthsFeb 8, 2025 10:11:35 ago (+0/-0)

When I got divorced.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 05:29:58 ago (+1/-0)

Same, 12-13. Men are expendable, and only kept around as long as they are useful.

[ - ] anon 1654435 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 04:37:32 ago (+1/-0)

It took a while. Late teens maybe. I didn't have many friends. I was the small kid with weird hair who probably liked the Ninja Turtles a little too much. I didn't really have friends until high school, and that was mainly due to playing Magic: the Gathering, so of course those friends were Magic: the Gathering people and we're all the scum of the earth.

Dad was always upstairs watching TV. Mom worked a lot and was drinking when she wasn't working.

One of the most memorable days of my life was when I was driving down the road and thought to myself "Not everyone is going to like me, and that's ok" It was so freeing.

When you leave a job, no one is going to think "Man, I really miss Tony Dicktickler. That guy was cool." They're going to put their heads down, do their jobs, and pay their bills.

[ - ] anon 2145112 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 01:06:17 ago (+1/-0)

About 4 or 5. First time I was beaten

[ - ] anon 5342517 1 point 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:26:39 ago (+1/-0)

10 or 11.

Now, when did you realize most of the world HATES you for being if you a White man. Second awakening.

[ - ] anon 2940284 [op] 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 18:22:07 ago (+0/-0)

Had niggers unleashed on our grade school with predictable results. That's when I KNEW Nobody gave a shit about me.
Not my teachers , not my parents nobody , or at the very lest that they cannot be depended on.
That's a fucked up realization for an 8 year old

[ - ] anon 1090111 1 point 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:06:33 ago (+1/-0)

When i was in my teens.

After my dad dropped dead in front of me and I tried to do CPR..

Nobody jumped in to help, I had to dial 911. The cop who showed up, was a father of one of my class mates, just left me sitting on a curb while the paramedics did their work.


In the tollowings, weeks, months, and years Everybody just left me to wallow in my sadness and guilt.


Took me a long to realize that I didn't fail anybody, but it was a lot of people who could have done a lot better.


It's been a long road recovering from that, but luckily I didn't go too far down any bad paths.


At the end of the day, you've gotta help yourself the most in this world.

As a dude, there are times when we don't matter much or aren't worth the effort.

[ - ] anon 1572807 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 02:03:04 ago (+1/-0)

Thats rough man. I'm sorry that happened to you

[ - ] anon 4051616 1 point 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 19:48:54 ago (+1/-0)

30 years old or so.

[ - ] con77 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 11:48:29 ago (+0/-0)

40
I was working with a pretty girl who had been a cheerleader at University of Florida.

She was complaining that she was lonely.

I laughed and told her wait till your my age and nobody wants you!

She was not amused

[ - ] anon 1855136 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 05:54:02 ago (+0/-0)

so care then

[ - ] RMGoetbbels 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 04:52:04 ago (+0/-0)

Last week when dulcima downvoted me.

[ - ] anon 2940284 [op] 1 point 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 18:26:06 ago (+1/-0)

I feel your pain

[ - ] anon 3707915 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 03:46:17 ago (+0/-0)

Not realy an answer to OP as it looks more specific. But as broad general rule for men, no one cares about men, that includes other men.

Women get more leighway and support/compassion.

The more everyone recognizes this as a fact of life the earlier the better on how they approach things.

[ - ] anon 2561250 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 03:46:03 ago (+0/-0)

I love you bro

[ - ] ProudRebel 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 03:29:05 ago (+0/-0)

Get a dog

[ - ] anon 2960332 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 02:45:19 ago (+0/-0)

Five.

[ - ] Ragnar 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 00:10:22 ago (+0/-0)

Lots of people care about me

[ - ] anon 3456182 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 00:06:51 ago (+0/-0)

Probably 12-13.
Went clear across the country to visit some family for a few weeks, and without saying a word about it, the day before we go home, my parents tried to ditch me out there with family. 12 years old.

Sort of a shock, and got a bit melancholy in school that year.
Was fairly popular with a decent size social group, good athlete.
Was always quite passive, so couple ankle biter dip shits in my lame friend group tried to elevate themselves at my expense.
They and everyone knew I’d kill any 3 of them at the same time, so they just ended up embarrassing themselves.
I could have made out like a chad and punished them all, but I was already kind of depressed and just found it all disheartening anyway, so I just broke off and didn’t give a shit.

Always had a small but consistent long term friend group.
But that close, sincere, concerned social group never happened.



[ - ] anon 2623043 0 points 4 monthsFeb 7, 2025 00:00:52 ago (+0/-0)

Disagree, some care a lot.

Case in point
https://youtu.be/DTFbGcnl0po

If you've been betrayed, try to care about others before time runs out.

There is no light without dark

[ - ] Trope 0 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:51:57 ago (+0/-0)

This is fucked up.

Where are your families? There should be people who care about you or you’ve fucked up royally in life.

Many of us will be dying with loving white grandchildren.

[ - ] anon 3927676 0 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:38:40 ago (+0/-0)

I knew very young. I can remember about 5 years old looking at my dad, saying something hateful and spitting on the ground in disgust. Somehow I just inherently knew that what you do to someone you hate.

[ - ] anon 1090111 0 points 4 monthsFeb 6, 2025 23:09:54 ago (+0/-0)

That's some tough shit dude. Ive lost most of my friends too, at a certain point you drift or are left behind.


Went through a a bit of sadness difficult times 2 years ago, buddy dropped off completely when I didn't have time to game anymore.

Thanks dude.