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Pretending to be normal

Billy87
8 months ago

Does anyone else feel that they can pretend like they're normal for a short amount of time (and actually cope quite well like a regular person in the outside world) but after a couple of weeks the effort is too much and you crash and burn out and cant "be normal" anymore?

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  • 8 months ago

    Yeah. But then I didn't have to, because there was just me and the dog in my world. 

    And that was better, and felt normal, in a way that pretending to be never had. 

    In my current small-world life, people know that I'm not like them, and that helps, but I Still have to do some pretending, because if you go out into the world at all, you do. 

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  • 8 months ago

    Yeah. But then I didn't have to, because there was just me and the dog in my world. 

    And that was better, and felt normal, in a way that pretending to be never had. 

    In my current small-world life, people know that I'm not like them, and that helps, but I Still have to do some pretending, because if you go out into the world at all, you do. 

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