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stormygrey
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I didn't have SA, I'd be a go-getter, someone famous with a lot of ideas and who likes to organise things, like events, and I'd have liked to motivate and inspire people too, and make a +ve difference in their lives. I'd definitely not put things off, but unfortunately having SA the past few years, I have prevented myself from developing enough.



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DYiNG-iNSiDE
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ive found that more and more of the time my personality is the SP one and not my real one and that scares me- soon will all i be is the SP personality?? but the real me is really funny, interesting, talkative, cool and comfortable. my mom says if ppl could c the real me every1 would love me, but they dont c it Sad


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure who the real me is. I've been very shy/social phobic all my life. I don't know how to be anything other than that. Though when I'm with people I'm comfortable with or online I'm a little different - I still have some anxieties and paranoias etc. But I'm more able to be what I suppose is the "real me." I'm just not sure what that is. Sometimes, it's crazy and weird. Sometimes it's serious. Sometimes it's intigued and searching. Sometimes it's moody, sometimes it's happy. I'm not sure who or what I am lol.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

when im with people im comfortable with im pretty funny in a really ironic, bitter and obnoxious way.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

renegade wrote:
Well I guess I can show my true self ONLY when i'm completley drunk and there SP free Cool

Otherwise.... Confused


i feel the same... thats why i drink so much lately... makes me loosen up , talk and laugh alot

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

endless_tension wrote:
I'm a different person depending on who I'm with.. I'm a weak personality. So weak that I don't have a personality at all. I adjust all the time to fit in with people.

I have no idea who I really am.


I feel this way sometimes. I feel like the biggest faker in my own life. An actress (and not a very good one, one who hates the stage!) I only know who I really am when I'm alone, does that make any sense?
My 'friends' don't have a clue. My family gets a bit clearer picture, but I act a little different with each family member. Like a chameleon, I adjust.
But when I'm alone, or when I'm outside in nature I feel unity and I understand what I am.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Truthfully, no one should really be fake unless it's sth terrible and if everyone could be their true selves then we'd realize that we're all regular, fragile and like attention and care and there aren't much differences, it's our insecurities on that truth though that we still try to protect ourselves.



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opinionated_m
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:58 am    Post subject: me Reply with quote

i vent alot w those I'm close to about ppl's behaviors. thats one thing I notice. i can joke & make ppl laugh. I'm descriptive & can tell a long story out of a very short one. lol
everyone does bring out something different from me... or makes me feel a certian way. I've had certian guys that I was consistently outgoing, talkative, happy go lucky around & really comfortable but would'nt date (just considered a friend). some ppl, just make me happier to be around. of course i like to associate myself mostly with others who I feel comfortable with & can be myself.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

emotional wreck.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Once again this website shocks me! I am not alone! Alot of you describe the way I feel so much.

When I'm comfortable with people I am happy, outgoing and occasionally funny but as soon as I lose that comfort factor my mind goes blank, I have nothing to say, I feel stupid and out of place trying to hind and not be seen.

Why does this happen? Why can't we be ourselves, I don't understand... Sad

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