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Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:37:51 2019 No.12645319 [Reply] [Original]

What compels you to read?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:38:57 2019 No.12645330 >>12645319 New perspective in which I can better my own life

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:39:13 2019 No.12645332 nothing that's why I don't bother with it. reading is a boomer hobby like the yo yo and littering

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:40:22 2019 No.12645338 >>12645319 i wanted to read nietzsche but i've been stuck with the greeks since two years. think i'll just give and go back to vidya.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:44:58 2019 No.12645376 >>12645338 >gaymer fell for the gayreeks maymay

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:50:32 2019 No.12645415 I read, mostly, fiction and historical accounts and this makes me go to other places, feel sad and happy and all that stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:53:26 2019 No.12645427 can't suck me own dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:54:17 2019 No.12645433 >>12645319 waifus

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:54:47 2019 No.12645436 >>12645427 it's severely overrated

>>	Anti-/lit/ !N4bnZoKwfU Fri Feb 22 18:54:49 2019 No.12645437 Competitiveness and a desire to have my mind taken seriously (most of all by me). Probably to a lesser extent, a desire to know truth. To a far lesser extent, for pleasure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 18:56:47 2019 No.12645452 >>12645319 It's a more complex and healthful joy than masturbating etc., akin to the difference between simple sugars and complex carbohydrates.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:06:26 2019 No.12645513 I'm an autist with abysmal verbal iq that always sounds retarded when I try to talk about something in real life even when I know what I'm talking about.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:07:46 2019 No.12645520 >>12645513 sounds more like OCD or social anxiety than low verbal IQ

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:09:13 2019 No.12645530 File: 26 KB, 400x400, 1525042386643.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12645319

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:15:31 2019 No.12645573 >>12645319 Desire to know as much as possible. Also a kind of paranoia where I am convinced I am discovering patterns and codes through the books I read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:22:49 2019 No.12645622 >>12645319 boredom

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:32:08 2019 No.12645689 >>12645622 This

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:37:05 2019 No.12645722 >>12645520 I agree. I legit thought I was autistic with low verbal IQ before I got prescribed beta blockers. Instantly allowed me to speak semi-normally. It was like day and night t b h

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 19:47:12 2019 No.12645781 Beauty, perspective, tranquility, insight, entertainment

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 20:09:49 2019 No.12645909 >>12645722 >>12645520 I have a diagnosis of HFA and can speak in front of a large group if I have a script so it must be a low verbal iq. I can also read words themselves fast but take long to understand what was being said.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 20:24:56 2019 No.12646009 >>12645722 Beta blockers for mental Illness? Interesting. Did you exhaust the usual treatment options (ssris) beforehand?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 20:26:16 2019 No.12646020 I'm just coping with the fact that life is shit