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spooky13
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11 Jul 2010, 10:33 am

A good while back I'd told someone that I'd be myself, once I figured out who the hell I was. :)


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11 Jul 2010, 10:57 am

I try, but the real me is not particularly likeable.



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11 Jul 2010, 11:00 am

Easier said than done, and I have failed at it miserably ever since I was 13.



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11 Jul 2010, 11:00 am

If I acted like myself, everyone would probably call me something like spastic-ass, or something along those lines



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11 Jul 2010, 11:09 am

Exactly, except in my case everyone would just think I was emo or going for the dark, blunt, mysterious loner image. No one would believe the real me was anything but a front. I would look like I was just trying too hard to be cool. I hardly believe it myself.



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11 Jul 2010, 1:11 pm

tweety_fan wrote:
Does anyone find this piece of advice annoying?

When people say this to me I can't help but think
"Isn't being myself causing problems? I got this diagnosis by being myself"


Huh.

I don't find that half as annoying as being told all my life to quit being myself.

Really?

Who the hell else am I supposed to be?

Keep in mind for most of my life nobody believed there was anything truly different about me except me.


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