fudged my real life for E-life.

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I sometimes feel the same way about how much time I've spent online, taking me away from experiencing those 'teenage' moments you talked about. I played runescape for two years, Americas Army for one year, then runescape and xbox for the next year, then played xbox and was active on/moderating forums for the next year.. all these years have damaged my social life IRL heavily. But, I do have what's known as aspergers syndrome, a socially debilitating syndrome that makes me pretty bad, by nature, at socialising anyway. I wonder if I could have been really social despite this, but doubt it.

I suggest joining a sport, or sports. Or going to a youth group, or doing theatre or something like that.. you'll meet more people, find friends you can hang out with and then from there you meet their friends, hang with them, meet their friends, hang with them etc. and the cycle goes on. That's starting to happen to me now, it's great. The result is less activity online, however, and since I have responsibilities online and it's my main source of learning.. (I'm homeschooled), I have to find a middle ground. Another sad side effect of this lack of socialising though is never having a real life girlfriend, just online dating.. not that it truly matters until I'm out of school, and can settle down with a girlfriend, it still sucks.

I'd probably do it differently if I could have.