"The present is just a surface of sensation surrounding a great bubble of memory. You forget how to see, to hear; you forget how to talk to people. You forget other people even *exist*. You sink inwards into yourself, thinking about the past. Living on and on without end."
#StephenBaxter, Transcendent, 2005
"Gifted children and adults are often surprised to realize that they are different... particularly as they enter adolescence, [they] may feel very alone in an absurd, arbitrary, and meaningless world, which they feel powerless to change. They may feel that adults in charge are not worthy of the authority they hold.
As one child described it, they feel 'like abandoned aliens waiting for the mother ship to come and take them home'."
as someone who struggles with existential depression i would like to talk to other people who have had it
for those who also currently have it how do you cope?
for those who no longer have it how did you recover?
