A common comment I’ve received from psychologists and, on rare social interactions, from others is that I shouldn’t be so hard on myself. Today I’ve realised the source of the hardness, the source, partially, stems from the expectations of others. People haven’t accepted the way I am, and if I wasn’t hard on myself I’d likely spend even more time asleep or wishing to be taken by it… The hardness they tell me to drop is one of the sole factors that I’m out of bed and in the world, and my resistance towards that feedback stems from that very fact.
— LostLetterbox