“But that doesn’t help me. Knowing that other people do this but just not to the extreme I do doesn’t make me feel any better.” I’m getting frustrated now. Every time she compares me to the societal norm, I get inexplicably angry. I know she is just trying to show me that I’m not alone, but it makes me feel more alone than ever. I’m out in the fucking ocean with a life preserver while everyone else is on a yacht. I’m sinking while they’re floating. I swallow back the tears and turn my attention back out the window, watching the dried leaves blow across the dead grass. “I just need to find
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