3- Khyber McFarland

Khyber McFarland is a skateboarder, a musician, and a high school senior. We talk about his hand injury. Then I ask him about being young and the differences in your age and school grade. He talks about his development of introversion, attraction as he's grown up, and how he and I were both class clowns at some point. We talk about not being able to connect with others and my imposter syndrome. He says its innate to be self-centered, and how it’s okay to care about yourself. He gives his thoughts on drama in high school. We talk about me being swamped and my food binge the night before. We talk about my indigestion and khyber’s physical speaking impediment; him and I’s thoughts on being tall; his thoughts on stress; my stress mentality for junior year, and comparison to others like Keira, Jason, Vicky, Jason, Brij (I've got to mention you guys here or else I think it'd be pretentious), “Agastya” and why you shouldn’t compare yourself to someone with a name like that; appreciating who you are instead of wanting what other people have; and on physical touch and male to male touch--I run off the bus before we finish that conversation. Chapter Markers and Podbean Link: 00:00:30: Beginning 00:02:43: Hand injury 00:05:17: Ages 00:11:44: Social buoyancy 00:20:08: Introversion development 00:22:51: Attraction 00:24:16: Class clown 00:30:50: Being different 00:35:06: Freshman orientation 00:39:31: Social infrastructure 00:44:35: Are you swamped? 01:01:08: Speaking our minds 01:08:52: Being tall 01:15:47: How stressful school has been 01:19:52: Khyber drops heat 01:20:54: Feeling personally disadvantaged 01:31:24: Age, again 01:33:31: Physical touch 01:37:21: Guy on guy https://unswamped.podbean.com/e/khyber-mcfarland/  Recorded in the Francis Parker music (practice) room afterschool Thursday, May 16, 2024.