So Alone
melissa17b
Velociraptor
Joined: 19 Oct 2008
Age: 66
Gender: Female
Posts: 420
Location: A long way from home, wherever home is
Over the years, I have come to understand that a great deal of what I do is "abnormal", sometimes subtly or even invisibly so, other times patently obvious. I have come to accept this; this is who I am, and it doesn't harm anyone. For most of my existence, I believed that I wasn't just "different", but that there was something terribly wrong with me. This was much more difficult to handle. How can one accept that they are not "wrong", only "different", when just about everybody begs to differ, or so it would seem based on how they treat you? I am only just arriving at the acceptance there is nothing fundamentally wrong with me despite qualifying as a poster child for "different". This acceptance makes all the difference in how I live my life now and how I feel about it. I will be who I am, seek the company of those who can handle that, however few there may be, rewarding them with fierce loyalty, whilst dissociating from unproductive relationships, including family if necessary.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thank you.
I would be interested in discussing Aquinas.
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You are like children playing in the market-place saying, "We piped for you and you would not dance, we wailed a dirge for you and you would not weep."
