I grew up being told I was too sensitive and I spent the next twenty-five years building an entire personality around not reacting. Now I’m the person everyone calls steady and nobody calls close, and I can trace the distance in every relationship I have back to a single word a teacher used when I was nine.
· lachlan brown
AI Briefing
- A single word from a teacher's comment can shape a person's emotional landscape.
- Emotional suppression can lead to a façade of composure in relationships.
- Long-term suppression can result in a lack of intimacy in personal connections.
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