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Originally Posted by ElectricManatee
Oh, that's an interesting way of looking at it. I didn't take it to mean that me or my story is like anybody else but that the things I am ashamed of about myself are not so weird or upsetting that they are outside the human experience.
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Yeah, I definitely understand that. It is a sort of reassurance that I have often wanted too. I'm very ambivalent on the whole matter really - wanting to be special and different and yet also worrying that I'm so weird I don't even belong on this planet.
I suppose I would rather my T helped me to feel that my experiences/thoughts/personality aren't freakishly weird simply by creating an accepting atmosphere and not reacting with shock or confusion to what I share... rather than claiming to have 'heard it all'. I can actually picture that backfiring and making me think "oh, they think they've heard it all, that means this is going to be even more shocking to them then..."