It's amazing what you can learn about yourself when you interact with people. I've always known I don't handle criticism well, but I never knew how much I worried about rejection until I found PC. Now, whenever I see that someone responded to a post or pm, I get really nervous in the few moments it takes to get to the reply. Even after six weeks of seeing how supportive everyone here is, I still worry that something I said is going to be dismissed as stupid or dumb (which are different things to me).
...And yet the one time anything I've posted is given a bad reply, I hardly care.
Anyway, there's my confession/realization.