TikTok Gave me a Mid-Life Crisis

Anyone else going through one of those early 40s, mid-life crises? Spent most of my life on the straight and narrow, disassociating and burying my identity, and then TikTok has me pegged (pun intended) in like thirty minutes. My feed is all kinky, witchy, lgbtq+ oriented stuff.

I feel like I've been asleep for like twenty years and just woke up.

Things I've learned about myself from TikTok:

I'm probably non-binary.
I'm definitely some flavor of pansexual.
ADHD with a praise kink, ofc.

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TinyViolins · 31-35, M

It's usually not a good idea to self-diagnose yourself so quickly. I do think a lot of people spend their life repressed, which can eventually habituate through repetition, but I would consider it very rash to reach such drastic conclusions so suddenly.

It's possible that you're just h0rny and exploring fantasies to play with. Time will tell.

jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

@TinyViolins It's more like remembering who I was as a teenager, rather than coming to drastic conclusions that are coming out of nowhere. Stuff that was shut down and buried a long time ago, but never really went away.

Imsleepy · 31-35

Our feeds sound similar minus the kink stuff.

jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

@Imsleepy there's a lot of D&D and cat stuff too, I guess. But I definitely have fallen for some thirst traps. TikTok gave up trying to figure out what flavor of thirst traps to give me, so now I get all of them. Deep down, I know it's better this way.

Imsleepy · 31-35

I had stuff like that at first and yeah, it being mixed was better in my opinion too. That stuff has been mostly swapped out with cooking and makeup artist now. @jademonkey19

jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

@Imsleepy I lingered on them, and the app saw deep into my horny soul =(

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

My midlife peaked at 30, nothing really happened. Now All I wanna do is retire. But I'm broke.

Funnycat · 31-35, F

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V00doo

I work with kids. It's been part of my life since 2019.

jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

@V00doo How far down the TikTok rabbit hole are? Have you learned any long-slumbering esoteric truths about yourself?

V00doo

@jademonkey19 See, never had to download it, the kids keep me up to date.

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jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

@swirlie That whole hiding yourself to protect yourself thing; if you hide yourself well enough, you forget who you are. It seems silly in retrospect, but better late figuring out than never, right?

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jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

@swirlie Gah, that is a bummer =( I do feel like there's been a huge uptick in people I know coming out over the course of the pandemic, and I do think social media \ Tik Tok is helping connect them with things they didn't know about themselves.

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