Posted by trouble on February 10, 2002, at 13:29:57
In reply to Re: How has PB affected you?, posted by fi on February 8, 2002, at 12:13:44
Hello Fi,
Can you say something about your desire to disclose more data than what you normally do in the event your words might identify you?
For instance,
Identify you to whom, and what are the ramifications of that happening, and if you're going to come back and say I'm using my office computer and my boss could see it I will come back and ask you to defend that position. What are the ramifications?
Also, would you say more about the sense that it would be good for you to, at times, say more than you normally do (if not for those constraints).Sorry if I seem to be prying, I am enamored of "private" people, and would never analyze their motivations out of indiscriminate curiosity.
I myself am rather hell-bent on self-expression. Finding a safe place where I can disclose, and where people don't automatically respond with "Who's the freak?" has had unexpected positive ramifications in my life, I mean I am moving forward w/ things I've been stuck on and procrastinating about for two years.
I believe the growth is largely b/c I'm no longer pouring my energies into courting the world's cold-hearted misunderstanding, since I've found a world of warm-hearted sophisticates, who are unfazed by the freak's freakishness, I don't have to FIGHT for her all the time, can set that business aside and turn my attention to other things for a change.
You mention there've been responses to your posts that have upset you. How did you handle those experiences?
Partly I'm wondering if you know something I don't (!), or if all that reticence is some sort of paper tiger, scaring you wrongfully.
Nothing against paper tigers, I gotta million of 'em, and it usually takes outside influence to see them for what they are. Not that YOU'RE doing this, but oh heck! I'd just feel better if you'd clarify.Thanks!
[ trouble ]
(That's my name and phone number. Figured I can't really be promoting self-disclosure if I don't put my money where my mouth is.)
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