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Can Horrible Abuse Make You Emotionally Retarded?
For all the politically correct, please find your exit.
That’s a new one! That might be just the label I was looking for to settle this confusion of what “label” to give myself.
I had an ex tell me I wasn’t emotionally intelligent, as her emotions led her to fuck my best friend, and cousin. But she’s a LIFE COACH!
I’ve had therapist tell me it’s CPTSD, and Co-dependency, but I like the label “emotionally retarded” much, much better.
It covers all aspects of the emotions I have trouble controlling, and understanding. What a great way to minimize, and justify my disastrous choices in life other than being a fucking “emotional retard!”
So, how can you too, become “emotionally retarded?”
I think it comes with too much self awareness. But what sets someone on a path to self awareness? Usually a bunch of trauma.
Now hang on a second, I’m not tooting my own horn for awareness, because self awareness doesn’t mean shit. But it can lead you to a life time of misery in my opinion. As you become obsessed to fix yourself, and possibly others.
Everything in my “emotionally retarded” mind needs to have a reason, or explanation…