The world favors manipulation. I used to live in that kind of world until I said enough is enough, and started a new chapter of my life. I had functioned fairly well in the NT world prior to that. Because it was easy for me to say my parts of the script to get the reaction I wanted. This is 13 years ago now.

When I dropped that, I became painfully aware that I basically lost most of my social skills. Without the script, the need to get a result, a life based on light and honesty, I was nothing. I was easy prey. I had no defense and I was treated very bad by some people (mostly emotionally). When you stop playing the game, you basically have nothing to replace it with. I was naive and thought the World would greet the better me as... the better me. Instead I was greeted as the freak and the victim, the loser and the one without worth and value.

So I do understand if people want to play the game.

It is much easier.