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One of those “title-says-it-all” threads, but with the potential with something more. Basically, if one of your friends, siblings, parents, or anyone else in real life learned that you were a member of Bulbagarden, whether intentionally or unintentionally by you, how do you think they would react? Would they be surprised to know that you were a member of a forum, or of a Pokémon forum specifically? And regardless, do you suppose that their general feelings about it would be positive or negative, and what kind of positive or negative exactly? Proud? Angry? Happy? Disappointed? Optimistic? Worried? Supportive? Combative? And how do you suppose that their reaction would change if you told them that you were a member of Bulbagarden as opposed to them learning by surprise, assuming that you would ever intentionally let them know at all?
Now, I won’t go into detail regarding how I think some of the closer people in my life would think, but I am willing to share what I think a random person who kinda-sorta “knows” me would think. You see, in middle and high school especially, I had a reputation for being painfully shy, and more or less no one knew about the kind of things that I was interested in — like Pokémon — or what I truly believed in as a person. I still consider myself kind of shy, even here, but I find that I’m much better with expressing by true self here than anywhere else. If any of the people from school knew that I was here, and if they saw the kinds of things that I post here… wow, they would have no idea that “Bakuphoon” and my real-life self were the same person!
Now, I won’t go into detail regarding how I think some of the closer people in my life would think, but I am willing to share what I think a random person who kinda-sorta “knows” me would think. You see, in middle and high school especially, I had a reputation for being painfully shy, and more or less no one knew about the kind of things that I was interested in — like Pokémon — or what I truly believed in as a person. I still consider myself kind of shy, even here, but I find that I’m much better with expressing by true self here than anywhere else. If any of the people from school knew that I was here, and if they saw the kinds of things that I post here… wow, they would have no idea that “Bakuphoon” and my real-life self were the same person!