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kets99's avatar

i started watching jbu when i was a baby of 18 and it helped me sm in coming to terms with my anxiety and everything and now im 26 and allisons substack is still a source of wisdom and comfort <3

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Morgana Clementine's avatar

I've been on this journey too and found it really helpful to read your articulation of it. I think I'm still not quite where you are with it yet - I still tend to by default assume people mean what they say, because I do, and I am so very literal (being autistic). It's been a disillusioning process. Sometimes, I veer more to the cynical side, where it can be hard to even get excited about a promising new project because, my story goes, it'll just end up on the "it never really happened" pile. But this is well justified from experience, because people generally tend to be far flakier than my overly-conscientious, perfectionist, recovering people pleaser tendencies ever allow me to be ;)

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