Riese’s Team Pick: This Is Why I’ll Never Be an Adult

This is from June, and has like a bajillion comments on it, plus I have already raved about it on twitter, so MAYBE you’ve already seen it but if you haven’t — seriously folks, nothing has ever described my feelings more precisely than Hyperbole & a Half’s blog post entitled This is Why I’ll Never Be an Adult. READ IT RIGHT NOW. Did you laugh your face off? Do you still have a face? You don’t need it anyway, this is all you need.


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Riese is the 41-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in nine books including "The Bigger the Better The Tighter The Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image & Other Hazards Of Being Female," magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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21 Comments

  1. I have so much love for hyperboleandahalf and this blog entry! I can never exceed my capacity for being an adult and Allie hit it right on the mark.
    I found this blog a month ago and read every entry in three days. Yes I am unemployed.

  2. It’s things like this that scare me about moving out. I do the same kind of thing but on a much smaller scale due to my lack of responsibilty. So I’m probably gonna starve to death or something if I ever live on my own.

    • Don’t worry, I’m one of those PCP-squirrel people and I’ve managed to not burn my house down, go into debt (aside from my student loans, which I somehow managed to pay off), or die of starvation. And I’ve been living on my own since I was 18 – so almost 10 years now! You can do it! *cheerleader pom-poms*

    • i am in debt, haven’t bought groceries in month, been to the bank in months, or cleaned the things. oh wait. i did clean the things i think, like before everyone came to my apartment to stay with me. i am a bad example at life for everyone in the world for real

  3. I swear to god Allie Brosh has like a direct pipeline to my brain.

    My girlfriend read this, turned to me, and said, “Is this what it’s like in your brain?” Haha oh dear.

  4. Sweet Jesus, that is my LIFE.

    On the one hand: beautiful! I am not alone!

    On the other hand: this means I’m not special, and my struggles with life are not the unique and quirky fairytale adventure I’d been imagining.

    Comforted or saddened? Allie has broken my feelings.

  5. Although I adore this post, my favorite of Allie’s is, and forever will be, the alot post.

    Because nothing is more annoying than someone who loves this alot, or hears that alot.

  6. definitely laughed so hard i needed my inhaler. :)

    also…for me there’s one square or tile or caption missing

    “started day, ready to do all grown up things, smoked weed, fell back to sleep.”

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