Re: :) my views

"It really doesn't matter to me if you think I'm a mature, together person or not. You don't know me at all, or all I've been through in my life. Most of my friends and family would laugh at what you just said. I'm respected for my strength and maturity by most I know, and told so often. I'm thankful for the people who really know me and appreciate me."

Of course I don't know you -- that's kind of the point. All any of us can go by is what you post.

I'm trying to use as neutral language as I can to point that out, in case it might be useful data for you. Sometimes people can clue us in to things we're hiding from ourselves.

Not to get into the gory details, but I was a precociously intelligent kid with a facility for self-understanding, and I was able to use those tools to rationalize behavior that I realized many years later I'd engaged in for far different reasons than I claimed at the time -- and you're posting a lot of the same kinds of things I used to say. I sometimes wonder whether someone could have called me on my BS and saved me a great deal of heartache. Probably not ;-)
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