1. Please don’t make me handle more than I can. I am helpless when you do this, and I hurt all over. Please, please, protect me. 2. I was born this way and can’t change. I know you sometimes think something awful must have made me this way, or at least made me “worse,” but that ought to give you even more sympathy for me. Because either way I can’t help it. Either way, don’t blame me for how I am. 3. What I am is wonderful—I let you sense and feel so much more deeply. I am really one of the best things about you.
