Fitting In Cardboard

I feel every piece of this.

yeh, most humans are horrid creatures - it's a tragedy that most kids have to grow up into that unnatural and hostile environment known as school...

2020. Eve of my 28th birthday. This is what I need to hear. Thanks Zefrank. Missed the good ol you 🙏🏼

I was expecting this video to be about a cat trying to fit into a carboard box or something. Glad it wasn't that, but also kind of sad.

I learned this at about 12 years old.
I guess I was really really different.
I didn’t get over it until about 20 but now I’ve been happy for 21 years. Fuck um all that don’t like me. I’ll just do me. You do you

Today we explore true facts about the cardboard. The cardboard comes from the family paperidea which is Latin for "I just made that up". Most people know of the common brown cardboard, but like a man who shoved rainbow glitter up his dong, the cardboard comes in lots of colors. Here's a blue cardboard. Here's a green one with speckley speckley yellow paint all over it. Here's one that says "wet paint" which fell into some water. It's being an idiot. Some people confuse the modern cardboard with its distant relative "the paper". The difference is that the cardboard is thicc and strong, and not so good at the bendy bendy activities. So remember, if you're tired, bent out of shape, and a little fat, you have a friend. Even if it is a cardboard cut out.

Well said

The fat guy in this looks so tired and depressed.

Can we make Zefrank president of the world?

Show these in the classroom to Jr high students, could have used this right into high school really.

Very inspirational. THIS needs to be what kids and teens watch, instead of all the fake shit in music videos and magazines.

This is so true

Enneagram 5

Just thanks

dude the thing is you worked so hard to fit in.... fuck that be yourself I never worked on fitting in but still found my groove

7 yes later thanks💕

I still haven't found a trick to fit in

Very relatable, this was nice

Excellent. Different to the Animals...but extraordinary in its own way.

Not saying zefrank is nd and it seems a lot of people go through this but for nd and especially autistic people this can be a big problem, called masking. It takes time, but you really do feel happier when you learn how to be yourself and I’m sure you will learn, even if it’s hard at first. Just like anything else you learn. You got this and I’m really really proud of you!!! <3

Finally found it all these years!

Wonderful!

Was expecting a meme filled tirade about cardboard.

What I got instead was pure wholesomeness

This is one of the most influential videos of my life. Even years later I find myself coming back to this to ground my soul.

This is beautiful

Some days it just sucks, we do what we do...that's how we do!
You've found your work-around🥰

OMG !
Seriously friggin well done !

You so clearly an so perfectly put that in to words. That that so many
go through. At least to some degree anyways.

Seriously you have most definitely crossed over out of pure excelent entertainment w/this one.
You do know that right ?
That what you have gone an processed an explained this so thoroughly yet still short & sweet as well. An so well that even the worst ADHD surfer wouldnt have time to get lost & yet you have managed to express this troubeling experiance in such a way that it really is simple & TBH effortless to understand. An those of us who have experienced this in our past though we know it very well we still to this day likely don't have the words needed to just simply explain it or often even talk about it an to process it in our minds. Its just floating around in the corner under the "WTF was all that" catagory of past experiences. An its one we hope to have no further interactions w/ever again. Pretty sure we are long done w/& have collected all we need of that one.
An its one that likely any attempts by us to explain it in words either to others or just to simply clarify it for our own piece of mind as to what all that was about, , , , (i feel) ilso seldom is it ever able to be exactly put correctly in to words in such a way that is simple an as you have done so perfectly just fully nails it w/out question.
I mean really talk about perfection WoW. Shoot i cant manage to write a simple shopping list most days w/o it taking x4 pages w/side notes & blah blah blah for god sakes. So trully to be able to explaine such an important yet disturbing an upsetting experience piece of our past in a way that is compleate, quick an simple to clearly understand i feel for most people is not always a possibility. For it would closer resemble say a whole dang book, or perhaps even like multiple books seriously !!!
An any past attempt to do what you have done here trully has always turned out to be in no way at all soothing or comforting or satisfying ultimately clarifying as we had hoped it would be. But instead it is just the opposite being by far too long, all over the place, & basically a trully jumbled mess ! Not at all the effect we were going for being we would only ever bothering to relive memorie of such a experience and time of life in attempt to transcribe emotion and feelings in to word form in a logical fashion in an attempt to explaine it to others or to ourselves perhaps simply to help our piece of mind.
But instead we end up w/a pile of compleat endless chaos ! All a jumbled mess that took hours to make while causeing full on mental & emotional exaughstion . An in the end it dosnt even explain anything because its chaotic in nature an is in no way even near being a final
copy. At best perhaps it could qualify as a rough outline or a rough (really rough) draft. One of which will never be anything more than that. One that will likely never again see the light of day. Because even we are not willing to read it in fear it wont make sense even to us 😵! SMH
Seriously I'm not exactly certain that you even trully know that what you have done here it is trully something that is seriously absolutely GOLDEN ! W/o a doubt Seriously if i was currently seeing a therapist i would be bringing this to them to see. (Now i have done this kind of thing before in the past when i was being seen an id come upon something some one wrote or a part in a film or a impressive wording in a film or a song that is refering to a fitting topic an is a clear excelent example of something or puts it in to words in such a clearly understandable way that it would just be wrong not to share this &/or bring it to their attention if it could be at all helpful or useful to people who need help. It really does help to be able to express an to have words for things that dont clearly have words for in our minds. Like when I came across the words "obsessive obtrusive thoughts" I was like wow I know exactly what that is and boy is that a excellent way to say that ! This piece of gold that you have created an shared i believe can an i bet you it will bring a sence of comfort & in a big way. A closure really for something that was a hell to those of us who struggled with this all alone, confused, anxious perhaps sad or worse especially being some of us dont exactly survive it fully sometimes. An some turn to a form of distraction like through wreckless risky behavior &/or self medicating (over or under the table) some fight that but then may suffer unconciously instead via unexplained illness or conditions that seemingly have no cause an respond to no treatment that one day just goes away (if lucky though sometimes takes ahold long enough to actually cause problems internally) though any an all these mentioned ways to attempt to make it through the fear an confusion an self doubt anything to distract somehow from such disturbing uncomfortable and/or sometimes horrific experiances. An all over time fully have potential to become permanent or in the end to perhaps become something in its self that we may not simply just be able to walk away from. An for some perhaps the attempt to self sooth in those ways can turn deadly for us or even more than just us. So often the temporary cure (or say bandage of a sort) in the end becomes the real danger in its self. Cause an effect like pick your poison. Kind of like chemotherapy 😜 a bit frightning but its what ya will do sometimes to save your life if there is no other option.

So w/that being said, people currently experiancing this exact thing could benifit knowing so clearly put that its not them exactly it just is an it wouldnt be as much so if we all understood such things from early on. That things sometimes seem odd but if we all are aware of this then
it will be less noticable an people wont stare at us or be confused or say dumb things an such that make it worse Then perhaps there can be less of us suffering all alone an in our head trying live day to day in a panic an trying to figure what & why. This really could ultimately help to save lives you know that right ? Seriously.

I do know as a 50+ year old crazy lady who remembers being school age an dreading school whos family moved a couple dozen times an started new schools in mid year so im quite familiar w/not fitting anywhere ever.
An i can assure you i will be sharing this golden piece of work you have presented here to every person i know who like me are long past this time in life. But to hear this so perfectly put an summed up as you have so perfectly done. This piece of "gold" (i guess ill call it) feels to me like that missing last piece of a puzzle that we worked on a long time ago. Its way inside sitting there long forgotten really. But now comming upon this piece of gold you set here really feels like it finnishes up that puzzle for good now. Its just so perfect its soothing an relieving an as for that puzzle, it can be slid off that dusty table back in to its box an put up on a shelf where it nelongs or donated to goodwill or glued together an put on a wall if thats how you end puzzles . Anyway ya look at it you have gone an created a form of closure that i prior to this was fully unaware was needed and
i had been missing basically. Like you designed a great lid or cool container that you have put this messy emotional past experiance in to. Instead of it just sitting in side us somewhere (a dark tangled mess like neglected old xmas tree lights w/bits of mylar tensil all tangled in it) shoved in a corner out of the way but so it wont get lost or tossed out. But now its like you have created a container that is made for it exactly an one that is perfect cause its reconizable as what is in it (perhaps its clear so ya can easily identify it) or perhaps it is just a lid you have created for lidless jars that are used to hold things of this nature a lid that you have designed an clearly labeled it in such a perfect way that not only will it
perfectly fit these jars like a glove but so no risk anymore of it spilling out everywhere it is also marked on the lable what it is w/full perfectly clear explaination rt there visable on top that once closed on to the jar it is highly doubtful that anyone will ever again need to open it up and dump it out to dig through it. . Even if it was called on in a court case (for some reason) it could be handed over to the lawyer an upon looking at it to examin it they would see that it is ALL just right there clear as day on the lable. An you can tell after reading the "golden" explaination on the lid that its all there every piece by looking at the content visable through the sides of the jar
Every bit, every piece even that once lost last "golden" piece.

An yes I'm crazy but seriously i think I'm fully right 100% here on this one.
I believe you perhaps may have done something more in the end than you may have exactly realized.
I trully thank you for being you an for all that you bring to the table (as they say) i love what you do even befor seeing this one an considering its over all potental.
Keep up the excelent work.
An thank you again.
T.L.M.

I really hope this blows up when it hits 10 years old

This was awesome

I wish I could be your friend

Truly inspired.

I needed this

I didn't know this video existed when it first came out. I wish I did. Maybe I didn't have to have learned it all the hard way. So many comments detailing how seen people felt at watching this. It's like looking back at my younger self and heaving a sigh of relief, knowing that I got better at being me.

Push it down i got bills tto payy

Lovely 💕

facts

I love you man. Seriously though, get out of my head

I'm 32 and still feel like this 😅

Beautiful

❤

Just found this exact 10 year old video lol.

I wish I could like a video more than once.

So it's a video about masking.

Brilliant piece oh the human cost of group norms. Thank you.

Thanks!

What a loser. As a teen, I was too busy being me to waste time thinking about what others thought of me.