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Originally Posted by GeorgiaGirl413
If it keeps me from living the kind of life that I want to live, and mine does, then it is a disorder. It has caused chaos, hurt feelings, made me lose jobs. This is NOT just some variation of normal. That said, my T describes me as "high-functioning" meaning that my level of intelligence and education have allowed me to function somewhat better in the real world than others with BPD. And I can certainly see that in these forums. There are some who post here who seem much less able to cope than others. Less able to cope than I am, and I did not think that that was even possible when I first got here. My heart just breaks for these folks.
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I guess it's my rebellious, anti statistic, anti sterotype nature. It's not that I don't agree taht people have troubles that need to have remedied. I just refuse to look at those without my issues as "normal" period. The term itself for me is just too ambiguous. I understand your perspective, and what I mean is there is a "type of " person with these traits and they tend to seem to need more help with life issues. I just dont know if we're worse off than what would be called by some as "the rest of the world".
Part of my grand scheme of things in my brain. Everything is relative, if one doesn't suffer from a disorder, they have struggles elsewhere. I just dont' believe that the guy "over there" has it all together or is better off than me, of course the opposite is true also, I konw i'm not better off than him either.