• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    Strange… I don’t remember making this comment and yet it’s here already.

    Are you me? This is literally me IRL ALL THE TIME!

    In my experience though some people are forgiving, others not so much. But the ones that are often times can become friends

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      1 month ago

      Hahaha yeah…

      It’s taken me waayyyy too long to recognize that someone being unforgiving about it is a red flag.

      It took therapy to realize there are things i can’t change about myself and this might be one. Still have to work on it but can’t beat myself up over it.

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          1 month ago

          That’s definitely a hard part. This is probably a non-sequitor but I always felt like others had their shit together and assumed them to be valid when they talked and my own thoughts/emotions to be subject to that validity. But that just leads to an internal unwillingness to communicate those feelings out of fear of invalidating them and the faulty logic that i must be invalid when in reality both people have real, immediate experience and emotion. So i would beat myself up instead of pressing them to meet on the same level.

          Bleh, anyways, theres a nugget in there which led me to be more willing to assert my own validity. That helped a lot with my anxiety. But i still walk away from every social interaction over analyzing everything and being critical of myself. I’m just learning to be a little more critical of others too, that they made a choice in how to interact with me, and that i either appreciated it or not.