I love myself unconditionally. Every high and low I've experienced in my life I know the circumstances leading up to them and I support every decision I've made based on what I was dealing with at the time. Others might look at my lows and harshly judge me for them.
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"Love" is a strong word, so I'll say "really like."
I really like that I'm intelligent and stand up for my opinions, even if it makes me unpopular or hated by others. I see far too many sheep and followers in the world and not enough leaders and rebels.
Although that quote kinda hits different, as I (potentially) have BDD and do not like a single thing about my physical body, least of all how short I am. This meme is a 100% perfect visual description of how I feel every single f*cking day.
I don't experience fear of danger like ordinary people do. If I have anything resembling fear, it's a good feeling that makes me want to do something much more rather than less. That absence of fear has allowed me to do some of the most heroic things for other people in rare opportunities, like saving lives. Unfortunately, and far more commonly, it also tempts me to do very insanely reckless things for fun. So I have a sort of love/hate relationship with that quality, but it seems incredibly unusual for a person to have no fear and be totally relaxed in the most dangerous situations.
This is the only case I've heard besides my own of someone who has similar symptoms. https://youtu.be/2Hi3JO1rqYw ... and I might have similar types of damage to the amygdala that inhibit the normal kind of fear response. I was hit by speeding cars and hospitalized multiple times as a child, for example, and that might have caused some damage there.
Yet as difficult as it is for people to believe, I just don't seem to register danger in any circumstance. For example, I was near Fukushima during the earthquake and everyone around me including my wife was panicking, and even some screaming, and I was just worried that all the shaking was going to break my computer. So my wife was borderline panicking in bed when the earthquake hit us and I ran to the computer and grabbed it before I fell telling her, "No problem, I got it!" ... only to find she was worried about being injured or dying or something instead of the computer.
I do have things I don't want to do though. For example, I have no fear of heights and can stand on the handrails atop a skyscraper but I wouldn't want to simply jump off a skyscraper and commit suicide. I don't want to die and I don't want to get injured. But fear, from what I can tell watching other people, seems like a much more powerful emotion than "I really don't want to do this." It's something I don't really understand but the best I can tell is watching other people and they seem to be experiencing things very different.
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