DataB4 wrote:
Edna3362 wrote:
Overcoming long term anxiety is a huge boost in my progress. It changed me from being avoidant and unmotivated, to an active learner who rarely got overwhelmed by chaos.
In my case, I just took it slow... Very slow.
I'm a little confused then. You said you've rarely been internally stressed in a previous post, but here, you're saying that you overcame anxiety. Did I miss some context or other? Or were you saying that your external circumstances created your anxiety?
Yes. But nowadays nothing gets me.
Compare about less than 3 years of feeling like a crap to more than 17 years of not feeling the same way.
When I was young, I was not pressured.

Like most children, ignorance is bliss.
Then when I was a teen, that's when I had the desire (that could never be) and unanswerable questions (about NTs and human cruelty in general) that got me wasting 2 years of my life by being a depressed anxious wreck. Only times I thought of masking, only times I hated and envied people, hence only times I ever got internally pressured.
Then afterwards I got over it. Now the memory became laughable than painful.
So that's why I wondered what would it be if I took the path of fitting in...