Casual Conversation

It’s kind of like when you get a sunburn, and someone comes up and gives you a slap right on the sunburn. Maybe they meant to, or maybe they didn’t. Either way, it’s going to hurt like hell until your sunburn heals.

One of the many things I’ve learned in my two years of therapy is that we carry our pain and trauma around like a big old sunburn, and more often than not we get slapped by other people not realizing we’re hurting already.

I wish you the best on your journey of healing. It’s never easy, and you’ll often find yourself relapsing. But don’t give up on yourself.

Real life, face-to-face conversations or the internet? Because the tone on the internet especially in public spaces can be a bit rough... But it's also sometimes difficult to judge with all the non-verbal communication missing.

My mom is this way. If she feels stuck in a position,or someone's trying to screw her over, her voice becomes emotional and her eyes get glassy. Then she makes irrational speech options. My rpg character is built different, and not saying it's better but... I've seen it.

I am kind of like that too, but instead of crying I get angry. It's because I percieve such things as a personal attack. I'm working on it though.

Not really.

I have emotions, not afraid to shed some tears or to laugh out loudly whenever I feel like it, while most of the time I consider myself not concerned with whatever is happening around me, either because it really does not concern me or because there is nothing I can do about it.

When exchanging ideas, I'm also 100% fine with people not agreeing with what I say (and I not agreeing with what they say). For me, the ability to disagree is an essential part of living in a really diverse and really free society. Without that, there is no freedom and not real possibility to be different.

That being said, on the rare occasion where us disagreeing goes beyond that, say when someone starts trolling me or start becoming a little bit too ad hominen in their replies instead of focusing on what I said, I quickly block them once and for all: never to be seen or heard again, and immediately wiped out of my mind.

(my) Time is way too precious to waste it with such negative persons (and emotions), knowing there are so many other persons out there that are not as negatives ;)