I wish WEP existed when I was in high school
The year is 2016, I'm a junior in high school and I'm horribly depressed and suicidal. The social isolation of having no friends and the loneliness that sprouts from that was me hard. I felt like I was totally alone and that no one had experienced that before.
I loved Life is Strange because it made me feel like I actually had friends and people that cared about me which is really sad imo. My only real comfort and reassurance that I wasn't totally alone was Watamote but it didn't properly reflect how I felt.
You know what really didn't help? Finally accepting I was trans after two years of questioning. Back then there wasn't much trans rep at all, all I knew of at the time was Ferris from Re:Zero and they weren't exactly the best rep (it's still up for debate if they're actually trans or just a crossdresser afaik). Being trans was pretty much non-existent in the public consciousness and that fucking sucked as a teen trying to figure out my identity.
Back then an anime covering self harm, suicidality, loneliness, transness, and everything else it does would have gone so far for me in making me feel so much less alone. This anime just means so much to me.
P.S. If you're reading this and are in the situation I was it does get better. After I graduated I made a solid group of friends that has lasted me 7 years and I'm so much happier than I could have ever imagined. I never expected to graduate high school but I did and not I'm looking at applying to grad school. If I can do it, so can you.
