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Please keep J and S in your prayers, specifically for a reconciliation between us in whatever way God chooses

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There are definitely some people out there who are losers, but far more who fit pretty much all of these criteria are likely struggling from mental illnesses. Compassion would serve you far better with such people than this type of cynical and self-righteous attitude. Try showing people love. Try showing people that you care about them. It might actually change that person into the kind of person you want them to be. That would be the selfish reason to do this, but at least it would still benefit the other person in some ways. Nobody needs to be around people who bring them down all the time, but people who are truly hurting and struggling need someone to care for them because they likely have never had anyone. All of the symptoms that you have listed fit both complex posttraumatic stress disorder and depression as well as many many other mental illnesses. Would you blame a person who got leukemia for being ill? Would you blame someone born deaf for not being able to hear everything you say? Would you blame an autistic person who was born with the condition for not being able to think in the same ways that you do? Would you blame a type one diabetic for their condition, and this is the type of diabetes that you develop at a very young age, not the type sustained from poor eating habits? If you would not blame people for certain physical disabilities or conditions, it's not OK to blame people for their mental conditions either. 

I’m sorry I’m anti work but if you do nothing besides what’s pleasurable all day and have low energy and can’t sustain an upbeat conversation you’re a loser and I don’t like talking to you. Make your bed, brush your teeth. It should just be natural.

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Are you talking to me orto someone else? XD lol

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Thank you. 😊 

How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

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Oh boy… The insane barrage of people that entered my mind within the first half second of reading this… Yeah… Lol. 

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I have perfect pitch. I can tell if something is wrong with an appliance because the note it emits is different than the note it is originally supposed to emit; for instance all refrigerators when the motor is running emit the note of B flat. Sign me up for piano tuning any day lol. 

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Not the sinful parts. I refuse to accept those parts of myself. Those parts need to go. Those parts need to change. However, that does not mean I can lack compassion for myself. Compassion and love are different than acceptance. Acceptance borders on tolerance and sin should never be tolerated. But all sinners need love, including ourselves. And for any Christian, the true self is rooted entirely in Christ. Therefore the sinful parts of the self are not part of the true identity are they? I choose to accept the person God made me to be, not the flaws that have come in me through worldly experiences. Those are not truly parts of me and therefore they do not need my acceptance. 

“You have to accept every part of yourself to become the person you were meant to be.”

— Robert Tew

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I have two all-time low points in my life. For the first, I was 24, and the second is now. I am currently almost 37; my birthday is in two weeks. 

How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

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That's good to know.

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Group projects! They are only OK if you get to pick your group. Actually if you get to pick your group or if you don't like the other people in your class lol you have the option to work alone. 😊 I was always always always the one stuck doing all the work in order to get the whole group a good grade. I have not participated in a group project in almost 20 years and this still brings up feelings of resentment. Clearly I've got some work to do around this subject lol. 😊 There was one other time that I was in a group project in high school where one of the people in the group was an even bigger overachiever than I am and he insisted upon doing all the work and I was like… OK. 😊 That was a nice little reprieve. The group projects I was in always got either an a or an A+. Every single time. There was one where we got to grade one another anonymously. We gave everybody what percentage we thought they earned based on a bunch of criteria from the teacher and got to include comments. I was fair but I was also honest. I gave a couple people A's, a couple people B's, one person got a C, and I failed a couple people. If you don't participate I'm sorry you don't deserve the age that the other people are earning for you. 

@titaniumpeony do you remember the conversations we've had about this topic? I wish you and I had been in a group together because you work hard. We would've kicked a butt. 😊

@dragoneyes613 just curious what your experience is with this type of thing or anything else in the original post that you might want to comment on. 

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After literally just getting locked in my house and all of the other stuff going on lately, yeah, I'm about to finish the rest of my night by doing absolutely nothing productive and watching completely mindless TV. Haven't done that in a long time. I've literally probably watched five or six TV shows since the year began and watching TV and just disconnecting from life for a couple of hours sounds pretty darn good. Wish me luck. 😊 

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I chose the second response. This is seriously one of the saddest things I've ever heard. I don't know who these people are, but I'm praying for everyone involved. This is just heartbreaking honestly. I'm praying most of all that the child is not going to be scarred for life and feel like he or she has ultimately been rejected. 

A woman I volunteered with at an organization a few years ago was this type of person. She would go on and on about how her two daughters would come home with pictures they had drawn at school and be so proud of them. She told me that she couldn't understand why because they were absolutely hideous and horrendous drawings. She said I disillusioned them of thinking they ever had the ability to be artists; I told them how bad their drawings were and I never put them on the refrigerator with magnets. I think any parents who do such things are stupid and just lying to their children. And all I'm thinking is lady, you're in your 70s and I'm looking at the state of both of your adult children... you are the one who has been deceived. 

Opinion: it's abusive for a parental figure to rip up a gift from a 10-year-old

Person in judgement is a step-parent

Gift in tatters was a little blanket

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