[ WP ] Your username

I do n't know, to start off with, I guess I'm just not as confident as people think I am. I wish there was some kind of disclaimer attached to my name that would make it forgivable if I said something stupid ( because in reality I'm the sort of person who hates being caught out like that ). It's defensive. I want to laugh it off and say'hey, stop taking everything I say so seriously, this is the internet, not a court room'. If someone does n't like what I have to say, they have every right to smugly reply'relevant username' or'of course an idiot would say that'. I brought it on myself deliberately. I do n't mind making it easier for people to dismiss me- I actually get into fewer pointless, circular debates this way. I deliberately discourage people on the internet from taking me seriously so that I do n't have far to fall if they try and knock me down. 
 
 I also rage-quit my last reddit account ( I miss my old username- it was a pretty cool Neil Gaiman reference ). The constant, arrogant bullying of some redditors just pissed me off. I'm no longer subscribed to most of the main subreddits, so I do n't encounter it on a large scale anymore. But when I decided to join up again, I chose a username that reflected the feeling that every single redditor was desperate to prove themselves more intelligent than every single other redditor. All the time, constantly. I encountered people on here who literally boasted about their own'intellect' ( stop using that word to talk about yourself, ugh ). I thought, fuck it, that makes me so angry that I will do the exact opposite. I will refer to myself as an idiot. I will be *aggressively* humble. 
 
 It's like I'm walking into the room and meekly protesting that I'm not a threat, everyone look away, go attack that guy over there with the fedora- I'm just a self-professed idiot, do n't mind me.: ) 
 
 In a dog-eat-dog world, I wish I could be the hamster.
