hi caroola,
nice to meet you too and thank you for what you said! i spent my early life feeling like an outsider and like i didnt belong (to the rest of the human species), while at home i was pretty invisible and a non-person, had to pretend to be who others wanted to survive. so this is very ingrained for me, and it will take time and practice to change. for example, now i feel like i got too much attention and i must retreat again.
p.s. love the new emoticon!
puppet