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Originally Posted by spotted owl
I think your responses are honest...and I could not ask for anything more than that. I am also honored that you include me in the ranks of the 'healthier PC members'  I keep posting here because to me, this board provides the sort of support that we all could have used growing up. Someone to tell us we are 'ok' for feeling whatever we're feeling. Someone to send us love when we need it, and someone to just accept us for wherever we are on our path of personal growth.
I hope that one day you can look at yourself and be appreciative of your differences. In the meantime...what would happen if you spent a little time each day being grateful for what makes pachy, pachy? Maybe your mother has had enough time in your therapy hour, and the reason you are feeling so frustrated is that YOU are wanting more time to be seen and heard?
No matter what you decide, I love you for being different. I suspect there are a lot of people who are different on this board, and that is one of the reasons this community is so special.
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This was so beautiful to read. I also appreciate your honesty and that you do feel safe and comfortable enough (on the computer, at least) to tell us how you are feeling. And I couldnt agreee more about all of us here being a little "different", but I do believe there are many, many people out there who may or may not be in our lives in RL who are also a little "different" and once we find them we dont feel so alone.
Our family moved to a new area out of the city (for a million reasons) but I didnt have much hope of finding friends. Real friends who I could share with and feel somewhat close to. I didnt expect to find anyone. I am not your average mom. Im a little "different" and I raise my kids a little differently. I have met a lot of people since we moved here b/c my kids are in 3 different schools (teens to tots). And from all of these contacts, I have made a couple (maybe 5 or 6) friends that I have been able to really connect to. What Im saying is that although you feel different and no one can really relate to the pain you have gone through, (and please, I dont want you to think I am minimizing your feelings of being different than other people because your different-ness makes you very special- in my eyes), but that there are others out there and here on PC that can understand this different-ness. They (we) feel this way too and are similarly cautious with people and unsafe situations.
(((((Pachy))))) Can I give you a big hug????