learning to love little things about your disorder(s) or finding positivity and joy within it despite it being it is not anti recovery btw. and it can look like a ton of things. it can look like reclaiming harmful stereotypes or enjoying a certain aspect of yourself or engaging in a positive community or unmasking and countless other examples. you’re never too much <3

People who are starved out of conversation will approach it as if it was sacred, people who are starved out of touch experience any touch given to them as the highest form of intimacy, people starved out of gentleness will react to it as if it’s an invasion, an attempt to break them down, and people starved out of a community will approach it as if it was a minefield.

avpd + npd daydreaming is like “hey what if this was an alternate universe where *i* wrote the song im currently listening to and everyone thinks its so cool and loves me”

stop saying empathy when you really mean compassion. im gettin sick of saying it

empathy is a subconscious reaction that is possible to be learned but for the most part someone has no control over it. the amount of it is also often tied to disorders. compassion is the CHOICE to be kind and to help people. we dont "need more empathy!" what we need is more compassion. something you're not doing a very great job at demonstrating. empathy isnt inherently good and having it doesnt make you a good person. yall need to get over that mindset and accept that bad people can have empathy too.

I think growing up both not having any close friends during certain times and also having toxic friends at other times is a big reason why I'm so stuck in my head, and why I have trouble feeling fully connected to friends now. I've always been a daydreamer, and I daydreamed a lot when I didn't have friends as a child. I still daydream a lot. I feel closer with fictional characters than with other people, and I find solace within myself and my mind as its feels like the only one that fully understands me.

"my child is fine" your lonely-ass child has spent so much time maladaptively daydreaming about a nonexistent romantic partner that they've imagined almost every possible scenario and will never be satisfied with any partner in real life because no one will ever compare to their fictional significant other and anyone who could will take too long to reach a level of trust and intimacy that will satisfy their agonizing desire to love and be loved