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eskielover · May 11, 2021 at 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by TishaBuv

“People with Histrionic Personality Disorder tend to be suggestible; that is, they are easily influenced by other people's suggestions and opinions.”

I looked up and found much on Histrionic being easily influenced.

. Well, I don’t fit all the other criteria, but I may have a little of this.

I was always told things like, “If Billy jumped off the roof, would you have jumped too?” (Um, probably yeah…

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Lol....I probably would have jumped off too after seeing if Billy didn't break anything when he landed. That was how I learned to control my FEAR growing up....keeping up with the boys in the neighborhood, climbing fences & walking on walls & jumping off. Lol....I knew if one of THEM got hurt, it wasn't safe to do.

But I made the decision to play & do those things on my own. Only pressure was my own desire to keep up with the boys & not look like a "sissy girl"....lol.....(that all internally came from me, no one else)

I often wonder how much of these tendencies we are actually born with (nature) vs developed as we grow (nuture). Some of these things are not easy to separate between the two, but interesting to ponder on.