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Originally Posted by stopdog
This is why I am often an alien = This would have pissed me off to no end. I would have been fine with the other stuff - but if a therapist said this to me - I would want to clock them or have a piano or anvil on their heads. It sounds so condescending and patronizing to me. I am glad you were happy with it -but I admit - I don't understand it
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Thanks, SD. Well, he's come to learn the sort of thing I like to hear. A therapist would either know not to say something that to you or would very quickly learn.
It was mainly the apology I appreciated (I didn't ask for it--I was pretty vague in what I was looking for this time). And acknowledging that it's been difficult for me, I guess. Not so much the other part.
And I think, among his clients at least, that I'm the alien.