Dear Piaf,

I find you incomprehensible at times. Like the things you apologize for. Today you apologized for my hearing (which feels like you’re obviously trying to be empathic because I’ve said you often don’t seem to be) but you didn’t say you were sorry that I felt frail or that you didn’t appreciate what a sensitive topic my hearing is. I don’t actually want or need apologies for any of these, but to me it’s incredibly odd to apologize for the first but not the second (if you’re trying to be empathic) or the third (your misjudgement).

And the way you keep trying to move the session to some other topic when I’m not done with the previous one looks like avoidance. You said it was because you wanted to discuss topics with “content” not “process,” which, not only do I not know what that means, but surely I should be the one deciding when to move on?

Aaargh.

ATAT