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Up until a couple years ago I commonly thought of myself in terms of “I don’t want to spill my *me* on other people,” so I lived in an extremely self-contained way.
I didn’t ask for help, I didn’t ask questions, didn’t talk to people unprompted, https://twitter.com/teddyraccovelt/status/1356104112681660416
I didn’t ask for help, I didn’t ask questions, didn’t talk to people unprompted, https://twitter.com/teddyraccovelt/status/1356104112681660416
My operating assumption was “I am a gross, toxic substance, and I must spare other people from having to deal with me.”
No matter how much other people pushed back on this perception, I believed it at a very core level, so deep it was nothing I could have ever articulated.
No matter how much other people pushed back on this perception, I believed it at a very core level, so deep it was nothing I could have ever articulated.
After a lot of work, the attitude is mostly gone. Aaaand I’ve started seeing the value in opening up the possibility for connections—even when the pretext is kinda dumb.
Part of which, for me, is occasionally asking easily google-able questions on twitter (& irl, tbh)
Part of which, for me, is occasionally asking easily google-able questions on twitter (& irl, tbh)
Cuz I just like talking to y’all sometimes.
And I’ve learned that very few of you see me as a toxic spill of a human, so there’s no need for me to “protect” you from contact with me.
And I’ve learned that very few of you see me as a toxic spill of a human, so there’s no need for me to “protect” you from contact with me.
(This isn’t meant as a dunk on OP, this is just what it sparked for me)
