Do you ever feel wasted on others? Like you aren't seen as a complete person?

You value yourself, but other people assume the worst of you, so everything good about you is tossed aside...

You think you're safe to exist as you, but it just doesn't work.

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ostfuidctyvm

I've rarely ever felt particularly valuable to anyone else but me. I'm comfortable within my bubble but out in the world I feel like a non entity. I kind of lean into it and prefer to be invisible. I removed myself from friends and I just exist off the radar as much as possible.

I don't know what the answer is to this. I think that it's about me more than anyone else. I believe that my psychology has resulted in my outcomes for the most part. I've had some bad experiences, sure, but the demons are mine.

I don't know if that makes sense.

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

@ostfuidctyvm it makes a lot of sense to me.

But I do wonder if people could be a bit less presumptuous and more curious, if they took any care to understand, it might be just a slight bit better to exist in this world.

I embrace it now too, but it still hurts at times, not because of who I am, because I see so much possibility. I can't break myself of that optimism.