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CaspianXI Jul 26, 2023

My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.

My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed. - Lemmy.world

> My life is, by every objective measurement, very very good. > > And in spite of all of that, I struggle every day with my self esteem, my self worth, and my value not only as an actor and writer, but as a human being. > > That’s because I live with Depression and Anxiety, the tag team champions of the World Wrestling With Mental Illness Federation.

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astral_avocado Jul 26, 2023

Wow, I kinda feel bad for mocking his Wesley Crusher now, I wonder how much the best universal hate for that character has affected him.

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I_Fart_Glitter Jul 26, 2023

I’m a huge star trek fan and had a major crush on Wesley Crusher when I was a kid in the 90s. I honestly had no idea his character was universally hated. Wesley is wonderful. Reading his blog made me so sad, he hated acting so much… wilwheaton.net/…/yes-i-was-forced-to-be-a-child-s…

yes, i was forced to be a child star. it was never my dream or my idea.

I can't remember specifically when I first said "I just want to be a kid," but I can still see the late 70s smog, and smell the exhaust all around us as I begged her for what feels like years to stop making me do this, while we sat in traffic on the freeway after school, going to and from auditions, day after day after day.

WIL WHEATON dot NET

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afraid_of_zombies

I didn’t feel much about his character when I watched the show during the original run. I have read why people didn’t like Wesley and I sorta see it. He did basically take over every episode he was in. Somehow boy genius is there to save the day each and every time literally hundreds of experienced professionals failed.

In any case I think he did add to the show and Wil himself is a pretty cool guy.

I can’t prove it but I think that the plan for him was to connect Picard with Hornblower and all the writer changes of the first two seasons botched it up. Picard was supposed to be modeled after Hornblower (Patrick Stewart has confirmed this), problem is Hornblower was young in the novels. I think their solution was to pair him with a kid.