That happened to me all the time when I was in high school and started going to cons, being 14 and basically getting hit on by people who were at least 10+ years on me. And I wasn't even in cosplay. Freaked me out but then I ended working at a friend of a friend's dealer's booth every time he was at a local con and while you still get sleazeballs, at least there was less opportunity for them to like really be persistent since I'm technically working. And then I volunteered and became staff so I'm always behind the scenes and if anyone on staff has creeper tendencies, they keep it hidden since they have to see me all the time

There's a song by Seether that reminds me of this tbh. Look up the lyrics to "Fake It". It goes over, basically both sides, of the advice I'm seeing here tbh

yeah man. that sucks that you have that illness just try to improve your writing or read more books because shame man, you're a native english speaker and you have that illness. feelsbadman. not really paranoid just playing it safe haha, just playing the game of the playah man yup going to stay for a week just to have fun. na baka kasa may sira ka sa utak kaya di mo na i-intindihan ung sinasabi ko simpleing english na i-intidihan ko ikaw pa kaya haha. which mean yeah i'm not a native english speaker.

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