[Redway]

Unless the person in question happens to be a dickhead (which is just as often the case) but with me being the way I am (reserved) I’m selective when it comes to talking to even people I’ve known and loved for years and years so for me to observe someone for long enough and come to the conclusion that we can talk and converse in any mutually-meaningful capacity I would’ve sort of filtered out a lot of toxicity so I don’t tend to directly-associate with people who have traits that really don’t resonate with me. Unless I’m stuck in situations where it would be rude to do anything else but even then I keep our interactions as brief as possible and I’m still more wary when it comes to interacting with people under a certain age. There are 28-year-olds out there who have an aggressive sense of entitlement that’s way more poisonous and difficult to be around than a certain level of prejudice of sorts (for example) that’s more amendable to third-party input.