Published on 12, July, 2020
I need to start embracing my quirkinesses and my somewhat strange sense of humour and to those that don’t get it or are offended by it then it’s their problem not mine. I need to free the weird, inappropriate or not, trying to be “normal” is exhausting.
20+ years of masking though is a very hard to break habit!
I figured out very early on that people accept quirky extroverts but quirky introverts are deemed to be a legitimate target for bullies.
I developed a big, fake personality to get by. It served me well for over 30 years.
You must be very tired keeping up the facade, I don’t want too pretend to be someone else to try and fit in their world anymore it’s time to be me and live how in my world, people can either except the or F off lol.
Same here. And I'm still figuring out who I am and how to do that too.
I’m 32 and I’ve reached that point where I can no longer act for other people benefits, so gonna try my hardest to let go and be the real me now, whoever that is.
Yep - very tiring - I totally burned out and became very ill. I 'succeeded' in early life but at a very great cost later on.