It does not limit you, constrict you, diminish your capacity to feel or think or to trust or assert yourself, to experience suffering without succumbing to despair or to witness it with compassion. It does not keep you from holding your pain and sorrow and fear without being overwhelmed and without having to escape habitually into work or compulsive self-soothing or self-stimulating by whatever means. You are not left compelled either to aggrandize yourself or to efface yourself for the sake of gaining acceptance or to justify your existence. It does not impair your capacity to experience
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