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Originally Posted by birdcrazy
I know from past experience people see me as strange... but I wonder what the new people I just met think about me. I feel if I ask them up front, they won't tell me the truth, or if I say I have mental problems like I did with my last roommates, they will treat me different, or in the case of one roommate say they knew all along.
I feel like I want to act as normal as possible. I don't see anything unusual about them, except maybe the fact nobody wants to socialize much, and even though I am bad at it I want to and it's driving me crazy.
Suggestions?
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I used to worry about this. mostly after I had been diagnosed DID. It was unnerving to me to know I did things I could not remember doing and what people must think of me because of it. But my therapist asked me one day "do you have things you like?" I told her yea. She said you you have things you hate? I said yea. She said do I expect people to like the same things I do? I said no. she said do you expect people to hate the same things you do? I said no. She asked me if I like every person I encounter. I said no. She asked do I hate everybody I encounter? I said no. she asked if there were people that I found to be weird, strange or uncomfortable to be around. I said yes. then she said so theres all kinds of people in this city just like you with their own likes and dislikes. I said of course. She said then doesn't it stand to reason that just like you there are some people in this city that will like you and others that will not like you and some that are going to think you are weird, strange and uncomfortable to be around? I said yea. She said thats human nature. We all have our own brains to form our own opinions about people. its part of being human not to be exactly like each other so its human nature to have our own likes, dislikes and what we find attractive or offensive, weird or strange in other people. If we spend our life time trying to appeal to others likings where would we be? Trying to become clones of each other and leaving our own happiness and well being out in the cold. better to focus on our own happiness and wellbeing and those that find us attractive, desirable and likable will be there for us and the rest. they can find their own people that they do find attractive, desirable and likable.