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That typo and my scoliosis go hand in hand.

Rejection is when you cannot take on the perspective of another and only think about yourself. You reject you reject you reject you. Rejection grows you when you expose yourself to it head-on.

Start with observing how you talk to yourself. Notice all the negative self-talk, doubts, and insecurities. How does this relate to approaching? By approaching, you are fundamentally looking to challenge core beliefs about yourself. The other person has something to offer, a new perspective, that you deny within yourself. Avoiding and rejecting yourself is what keeps you stuck. So, ultimately, the solution starts with yourself. Acknowledge your self-hatred, and work towards lessening it. It’ll be much easier to approach others when you realize that they are you in another form. When you avoid and reject yourself, you are avoiding and rejecting others as well.

When life turns to absolute shit. Yet, you love and honor even that as necessary in order for consciousness to express itself more freely

No.

Which is perfect when you’re on a date. Helps you get out of your intellectual, serious mode. Now that’s a smart way to date.

Yep, as was my experience. I allowed myself to become alien, even if temporarily.

A forum post a day keeps your enlightenment a way.

I took a picture of myself last night as I was at the peak of a bad trip. It's the most frightened I've ever seen myself in my entire life. However, moments after l'd taken that picture, I took a deep breath and allowed the experience to continue unfolding and reveal exactly what I truly desired - major parts of myself I’ve been avoiding. When I took that plunge, I slowly began to have deep and intuitive realizations about myself. I see clearly that I'm always trying to reconnect with parts of myself that I've abandoned selfishly. In allowing myself to reconnect, I feel this warm sense of being truly home, and accepting myself more freely; without all the harsh judgements and criticisms holding me back from love. I’m allowing this love to embrace me more and more, as it heals me from the inside out gracefully.

Bad trips have the potential to grow you the most. Bad trips help you discover that your fears had no real weight to begin with, but that would require being radically open to allowing whatever needs to reveal itself to reveal itself. Bad trips bring you face-to-face with what you’ve been avoiding your whole life. However, you realize that you can handle and even love what you’ve been fearing, despite how crazy uncomfortable it is.

I am also realizing that I am both a man and a woman. Science has not caught up to this phenomenon, but it is getting there.

There cannot be Man without Woman. There cannot be Woman without Man. I am embracing women more and more. My upbringing has boxed women into fixed roles. I no longer wish to see women as mere objects to be toyed with.

It is a paradox, indeed. Going beyond your comfort zone and exploring new opportunities feels like you’re getting sick and reality is getting worse. However, it’s actually an opening and a test to see if you’re truly committed to expanding yourself despite the appearance of illness.

I acted very gay today, despite having core beliefs that being gay is wrong and evil. Gay does not just mean a man loving a man. It could mean a million other things. For me, I enjoy being genderqueer. I’m like a chameleon that gets to be whatever gender I want depending on the day and mood.

@universe Yep. And challenge them not to prove that they’re wrong. Challenge them to discover that they never had any validity to begin with.

Ultimately, accepting and embracing imperfections/defects about yourself will lead to less distress.

The way out is to challenge your assumptions gradually and consistently. I overcame a major fear of mine today, despite having to sift through a ton of resistance and doubt within myself. There is a lot to learn from going through this process. It won’t be comfortable, but the alternative is, like you said, to be trapped.

I’ve heard my sister tell me that. My current relationship is unique in that I am dating a woman and I am genderfluid. She expresses a lot of masculine traits as well.

Does the War on Terror ring any bells?

That’s completely normal, and if anything, will make you much more relatable and authentic in your future relationships.

Those are mainstream and socially tolerated forms of sex. 50 shades may seem normal to you, but normal people will see it like this:

Yes, its called a BDSM club. How you interact in a BDSM club should profoundly different than how you interact in a Starbucks. And not all women are into BDSM. Stop assuming that.

What has worked for me is being much more authentic with myself. Picking up neurodiverse peeps is clearly my strength. Masking and pretending to be neurotypical is my curse. Living near Austin has been great. Lots of weird ass people here.

From what I’ve heard, the newer generation prefers to give out their social media handles, rather than their phone number.

As an experiment, try doing the same thing, but in a different room.