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I got interested in Anarchism through Wikipedia in high school. I vaguely sympathized with Anarcho-Pacifism, but, more or less considered myself to be a Libertarian. I just thought that it was more sensible somehow. I discovered that I was definitely wrong after reading Atlas Shrugged and making it through all 60 pages of the John Galt speech which I literally banged my head off of the dining room table while reading.

I, then, fell into a crowd of left-wing Liberals with radical sympathies and would later decide upon becoming an Anarchist. I was actually more of a Communist back in the day. I kept trying to figure out how to make Communism more libertarian and eventually just decided that I wasn't much of a Marxist. I see Communism as proceeding from Marx.

I later got interested in Autonomism and Communization through The Coming Insurrection and now want to study Giorgio Agamben.

I decided that Autonomism was ultimately rooted in Marxism and that there were Marxist determinst tendencies within Communization that I didn't really agree with and so sort of just fell out of that whole scene. It was realistically just myself anyways. I wasn't really around any Autonomists or Communization theorists.

I've recently come back around to just being an Anarcho-Pacifist. I more or less ascribe to some sort of Anarchism without adjectives.

I kind of missed the boat on being involved with the community as well. I never got heavily into Punk in high school and hadn't decided upon Anarchism until my early to mid 20s. I'm sort of in the phase of my life where I'm trying to figure out how to get everything together now.

I think that active disengagement is a good idea and could be more of a positive praxis than it is given credit for as "lifestylism".

I feel like I have sort of a stance. There's just a general way of standing that makes me seem unapproachable. It's only partially intentional. I do need to avoid certain crowds at certain shows, but, I have been a bit too intentionally off-putting in the past. You never live at all if you just avoid everyone.

I don't think that I am snobbish, but, people have said that I am before. The air is totally unintentional. I guess I do sort of have expensive tastes. I kind of only read theory and watch films from the Criterion Collection. I feel like I'm fairly down to earth, though. I don't really have the prejudices that I think that a lot of people think that I have. I honestly just think that it's because I'm of a minority inclination within the Anarchist community and I never really got heavily into Punk. I like Punk, I just don't see why I should devote my entire life to it. I don't really have the patches and the rest of the set of significations that let other Anarchists trust you. I guess I feel like the movement is a little too concerned with its aesthetic. Perhaps, it's just because I really am sort of out of place, though. I sort of feel like I don't really have that much to offer the community. I can give you a lot of good book recommendations, but, that's kind of about it. I don't really feel like anyone would really be interested in my music or poetry. Idk, though. I'm probably just second guessing myself too much, though.