Anything can be taken to extremes. I suppose that's what makes the difference between helping and overhelping. If you need the help and ask for it, that's one thing, but just grabbing a book out of my hands and turning the pages for me is downright insulting. I'm not THAT helpless!


I wondered if I'd mentioned it here before. It's an ongoing problem. And any time I bring it up, most people mininize it and try to convince me it's not that big a deal. I rarely have my feelings validated. Even if they do realize it's the other person who's being overbearing and condescending, what I'm likely to get is a casual shrug and a "Well, that's just how he is."

It tends to make me not want to go out around people if I can avoid it.