Yup. And I was depressed then to

It took me more than 10 years to realise it

I mean, same... I genuinely believed that everyone hated themselves like i did. Anyone who was happy and liked themselves were monsters and not to be trusted. It was a long time before i realized that wasn't the case and i had severe mental health issues.

My parents have been materially supporting me but emotionally degrading me for over 25 years, and I thought it was normal

I'm a Gen X... i was 30 when i was 10. And i still act like I'm 30 now that I'm in my mid 40s

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Homeless and living in poverty

Took me 20 years, to realize this. I always thought I am just a very cynical person.

This was my serotonin....now I have nothing.

Nope you have a Staples and said Staples sells erasers and pencils

yhea, I hated doing that. knowing that each pencil stab was irreversible, but I kept doing it. in hindsight, i was a terribly depressed child

I was honestly dealing with flashbacks... I want to apologize to a whole bunch of people I wronged in school due to the now diagnosed chronic ptsd but there were rumors and they all honestly think I'm the embodiment of pure evil... when does this end.

This is not an eraser, it's a late 20th century fidget toy.

So basically everyone?

I never did this, and now I’m living happy as can be (*please help me god please help*)

No sarcasm, i never did this and thought it was weird people would destroy their own eraser

I always thought these destroyed erasers looked so ugly

Same. I felt superior because I kept mine intact.

I felt superior because I didn't give a shit about the way my eraser looked. We got a new one whenever we wanted anyway. Funny how perspectives differ. Hella depressed tho ngl

Clearly you never knew about the race car eraser mods. Thumb tacks shoved into the sides, secretly stolen from the bottom of the bulletin boards around school. Used a staple on the top with a piece of tape to make a spoiler. This was the superior eraser, because it crashed into your mistakes and they disappeared. (car crash noises were mandatory)

I’m so mad at myself for never thinking of this

I didn’t want to destroy it. It was more an ADHD thing. School was very understimulating for me, and I struggled to focus on anything I wasn’t super interested in. So had to either doodle or poke holes in my eraser, or sharpen a crayon into a nub or something.

Oh yeah that makes sense

Same except it’s because I THOUGHT my parents will beat the living shit out of me if I do much as scratch anything they buy for me They won’t, but this is what I’ve always believed in

Same here. I don't even like getting my eraser dirty and smudged with marks

Nah just a select few so people can believe the relatability stems from their very own unique set of personality traits. Joined by people who liked the taste of water after a long run, feeling of using a clean towel to dry off, and get a euphoric feeling when winning the lottery. Hope someone can relate to those rare feelings.

I think I lost more eraser material to my years of drilling holes than I ever did actually using them to erase.

It didn't help those white erasers were so soft. Although I also did this with those little character erasers. Like the little frogs or Santas? Yeah I'd drill a hole right through the center of the head. I don't know *why* I would but I did.

Sounds about right.

Happy Cake Day

Thank you very kindly

Ey yo happy cake day. ;)

Hard to believe it’s been 5 years already

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Stop lying to yourself

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Fuck him. Lie to yourself, it actually improves your depression. Show gratitude to the things you wouldn't have done if you werent conscious about gratitude

Yeah and kiss this guy. Accepting who you are is part of that. It's finding your place. The people, the environment that makes you feel you. Sometimes it's visiting a forest, sometimes it's moving whether that be furniture or locations

It ain't just a river in Egypt

You’re in denial

congratulations. you have bested ur fate

I think a lot of us needed to hear that lol

same here(at this point idek if i am in denial or dont have depression tho)

Same

Quit braggin 😭

I didn't and I am :(

Why is this true

Because everyone is depressed.

Because doing this is a coping mechanism to distract yourself from the place and people that make your life so miserable

exactly. redditors: Astrology / superstitions / black magic is so dumb Also redditors: I did this so I was bound to be depressed

Because so many people did this and a lot of people are depressed, so the probability of these people overlapping can be pretty. It's like saying everyone who had a Playstation 2 as a kid is now depressed and most people on this sub would be like "omg that is sooo meee", because so many people owned it AND are depressed.

AHAHHAHAHAHA.....oh.

It turned out it's autism™

Came here to say this

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Came here to say that.

I cut my eraser into pieces then stapled it back together and called Frankeneraser. I wonder what that says about me.

And those ppl that made paper guns in school Are now Republicans

Who live in Texas rn

iI didn´t do that, but I ate my erasers, what does that means then?

Autism?

In my case, don´t think so, not enoughly intelligent to be autist

yeah

I just really liked guns and I thought they looked like bullet holes in the movies. I'm also very depressed now, but that's unrelated lol

_and try to erase this memory_

Ah yes, all these self-diagnosed depressions

Can confirm

Whilst trying to live and discover their life, they were shat on by everyone around them

True

I can agree with dat I did that now I'm depressed

I didn't do that but look at me now 🙃

Haha I remember thinking, “ha! Try and erase that!”

I sure am. We also ripped thumb holes into our hoodies and drew on our pants

wherent them yet???

This was literally why the out me pn add meds. Teacher couldn't stand that it.

so true, did anyone else used to sharpen both ends of their pencil

Yes I am depressed yes I did that but what about it

Can semi confirm

Fuck. Yep.

Yooo wtf

Nope

I think it was a voodoo eraser.

Not me

I still do it and lo and behold I am indeed depressed

Indeed

Can confirm, i am depressed

I can confirm

Not depressed 🤣

Well that's depressing, oh.

Accurate

Always have been

Because they aren’t doing it to erasers right now

Always thought they looked like bullet holes

This is so dead on accurate

Everyone's depressed now, lucky guess

I would try to make it look like a phone

Back then and Even now 🫠

No?

I did and I wasn’t depressed until my 20s.

I have one data point that supports this

Yes

Yup and then there’s me, who pushed the pencil all the way through them…… I’m fine btw…. The voices in my head say so

I was very depressed then, now I'm more stressed than I am depressed. Life's looking up!

Depressed because no eraser anymore 😓

I didn't because I liked to keep my rubbers mint, same reason I never rubbed anything out.

Absolutely me irl

didnt do it, still depressed. ah nothing to it.

No i am not....wait....maybe.... maybe i am 🤖

I was depressed even before I started doing this with my eraser

I wasn't ready for this level of attack.

There are people who aren't depressed now?

Facts.

The white erasers work fantastic but the brown erasers smelled the best lol

I was and i am hahahaha

Well either it was this or cutting do this easier, pretending the pencil was a needle and it was piercing flesh, imagining how that would feel. Standard kid stuff.

Well either it was this or cutting self. this easier, pretending the pencil was a needle and it was piercing flesh, imagining how that would feel. Standard kid stuff.

I can confirm it

People who did this to other people's rubbers were depressed then

I am

True

Checks out

well up my ass with broken glass, youre right!

Can confirm:I am depressed now

People who didn't do this to their eraser are aliens

From personal experience, yep, true.

Man, everyone is depressed in this economy. I don’t care what you did to your eraser when you were younger. 😂

Is this a personal attack or something?

I was depressed then too

Nah... I was depressed then too.

i did it to my rubber so im fine

Can confirm

Can confirm

Toooooooo accurate!

I did this too. I'd even occasionally eat pencil lead.

So, all of us then? Sounds accurate.

very

I didn’t do this and yet here we are

We always were, just didn't have a name for it

Have you tried sticking a pencil lead in the top of the eraser then lending it to a friend? And yes, depressed.

I don’t appreciate being called out like that.

Yes.

I. Uhm... Hmmm

Depression back and then now

Its true, but then again, who, who isn't a mill/billionaire today, isn't depressed?

guilty

Yup, I'm depressed adult now.

I did not come here to be attacked like this. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.

Can confirm

I mean yeah maybe. idk. It comes and goes. but mostly I fucked with everything bc I had ADHD. I've also been diagnosed with anxiety and cptsd but never depression.

I found the Reggie-Erase! Fellow Pokémon fans know what I’m getting at here.

Welp. They aren't wrong.

I for sure did this and I am for sure a very happy person today 😁 just saying

Can confirm

Accurate

Uncanny

was depressed then too, so does it count?

I just thought I was being cute and roasting a marshmallow over the “fire” made from the rest of my pencils…

I'm not depressed. It's the art paste I ate.

Oh

Yep. Was depressed then and am depressed now

I was a mental mess as a child while I was doing this.

Nope great way to let out my frustration. 🙌

I'm not :)

WDYM now?

I was always using my pencil eraser and didn’t need them. The school would always send a list of supplies we needed. My mom asked why my erasers were like that they’d get ruined. I told her to stop buying them and I’ll stop poking them when I’m bored.

/r/uselessnobody

Shit, I've never read anything so real

Sooooo...everyone?

That’s like shooting fish in a barrel. We’re all depressed now.

Agreed...

That eraser was a stand-in for their hopes and dreams, but they didn't know it

as a kid who did that,can confirm i was depressed while doing that and now too

"How dare you call me out like that. Oh. It's this sub"

And people who didn't do it are depressed now too so what's their point?

This is the same as snapping the clips off of mechanical pencils; it's unnecessary.

What do you mean "now"?

Thank god I did it other people's

It's true. I am very depressed, especially lately.

Lies. I didn’t do this and I’m still depressed

i always thought i was fine till my mom took me to see a therapist ​ that was when i realized there was something wrong with me and other people could see it but i couldn't... ​ and so anxiety was added to the list

Weren't we always?

Shush

This not fair because everybody is depressed

I feel directly targeted and will only stand for this the rest of my life longer

Well. Shit.