@N33R
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gwinny3k: "The worst trick a childhood anxiety disorder pulls is, you spend your early years being applauded for being so much more mature than your peers, because you aren't disruptive, you don't want any kind of attention, you don't express yourself, you keep yourself to yourself this makes you a pleasure to have in class, etc etc - and you start to believe it's virtue. But you're actually way behind your peers in normal social development, and who knows if you can ever catch up."

deliciousstomach:" Never heard a truer thing in my life"

@[email protected] thank you for putting it into words but my parents did in fact have to grapple with the implications of this by having to jank me into speaking up and thinking of ways to make me make friends from a young age lol
@N33R hehe, and now I am older and people say I am childish, and, behind my peers for daring to finally be myself