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For those diagnosed, what level are you?

Shardovan

...if you're comfortable saying. 

It occurred to me after just reading another post that maybe my Level One makes some off the things I say on here seem a bit OTT (it doesn't feel that way though!) if the majority are L2 or whatever and have more 'right' (stupid thinking I know) than me to be saying anything. What percentages/ratios predominate on here in terms of all this?

Paranoid thinking maybe, it gets the better of me sometimes. I just got a weird feeling of embarrassment that I may have presumed I belong somewhere I don't. I think it will pass, and thanks for undertanding my posting this even though I can sense it's (I think?) a bit skewed, having come up as a sudden fear that seems to be demanding early closure/external invalidation. My usual issue!

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  • Whatever level it is when a person is was always very employable, but could never get any i'm on that level.

  • in reply to Grubby

    You are not alone, in my case with the added fillip that I'm also when I'm employed always the lowest paid person. Always.

    The only way to win, is not to play.

  • in reply to I Sperg

    Exactly.  The game (THEIR game!) is rigged!  So sometimes we need to invent our own or at least frame things very differently inside our own minds because much of this is about cultural/societal norms rather than any deficit lurking within ourselves.   

  • in reply to Shardovan

    Yes, given my longstanding interest in self help and psychology, the only mystery is why I didn't come to it much sooner.  Most of the material for my degree was already in my head before I even started it!

    I guess I was heavily invested in "playing the game".  And counselling certainly wouldn't have put in a strong position to pay the mortgage.  But these days (and thanks to a couple of redundancy packages as well as a frugal lifestyle) those concerns have fallen away.

    It's a bit disconcerting, I think.  Previously people paid me a lot of money to go away.  But now I manage on much lower amounts which somehow feel more valuable because  I'm being sought out and chosen. And I'm playing my strengths, not my Joker.  

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  • in reply to Shardovan

    Yes, given my longstanding interest in self help and psychology, the only mystery is why I didn't come to it much sooner.  Most of the material for my degree was already in my head before I even started it!

    I guess I was heavily invested in "playing the game".  And counselling certainly wouldn't have put in a strong position to pay the mortgage.  But these days (and thanks to a couple of redundancy packages as well as a frugal lifestyle) those concerns have fallen away.

    It's a bit disconcerting, I think.  Previously people paid me a lot of money to go away.  But now I manage on much lower amounts which somehow feel more valuable because  I'm being sought out and chosen. And I'm playing my strengths, not my Joker.  

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