Why Does Everybody Hate Me? Quotes

“I hope this book has helped you on your journey of self-awareness and enabled you to recognize that you are not broken, not too sensitive, not too much, not too energetic, not too anything. You are different, you live with RSD, and you have always been enough.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“You feel the world very intensely, you’re able to love more passionately and give more of yourself to others, but it also leaves you exposed to really feeling every single bump in the road.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“I sometimes fantasize about having a time machine in which I could travel back in time, put my arms around the younger version of me, and reassure him that he’s not broken, simply different, and that he has always been enough.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“What can you learn from this experience?’ or ‘What went wrong and how can you improve?”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Try to catch your negative self-talk and imagine how you would speak to a child under similar circumstances.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“You associate your challenges with your entire worth as a human being, so when someone criticizes or comments on one of your challenges it feels like your entire existence is being attacked.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“No one is perfect, and a well-rounded and self-aware person will know what their strengths and weaknesses are.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“As our pile of evidence increases, so will our self-respect.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“People with ADHD rarely give themselves credit for their own accomplishments.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“This leads to them feeling like a child trapped in an adult’s body.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Many people who begin to mask from a young age develop a false self, a version of them that operates well in the world but is miles away from a true representation of who they really are underneath.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“creates an adult who doesn’t truly understand who they really are.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Ultimately, sharing your RSD with those closest to you is very important because it adds vital context to otherwise confusing behaviour. You’re”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“people with ADHD are chameleons, able to bury their true feelings under a flawless version of themselves, one where no one suspects they might be struggling.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Masking, the very survival instinct that makes people with ADHD so capable to adapt is also the chink in their armour because it creates such a disconnect”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Just because the rage is disproportionate to the thing my cousin said, it doesn’t make the feeling any less visceral.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Men don’t talk about their feelings, they bottle them up”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Adults with ADHD are five times more likely to take their own life, and this is one of the reasons why: the compounding effect of RSD and jealousy.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“mean, surely there’s no pain great enough to justify such a permanent decision? But right at that point, I could empathize – this pain felt like a hundred swords stabbing me in the heart.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“What started out as a normal level of suspicion and jealousy turns into an all-consuming spiral of rumination from which it feels that there’s no escape.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“We can make accommodations for ourselves by asking for feedback immediately, or at least by asking for more context as to what the meeting will involve.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“The RSD brain is fast to assume that a comment is a personal attack, but often that is simply how your negativity-biased brain has perceived it. Asking clarifying questions”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“but someone with RSD struggles to ask for help with the tiny things.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“We don’t ask for help.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Humans are resistant to change – it’s an act of self-preservation to dislike new ways of thinking,”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“People are scared of change and will pull away from someone who is acting in a different way or doing something using a different method. Difference makes people uncomfortable because it risks making them look foolish if the new way of doing something proves to be a more efficient way of doing it.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“The world is scared of difference,”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“As a child, we felt different and we solved this problem by masking. We realized we hated rejection, so we solved this problem by people-pleasing.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Every action someone with RSD takes is subconsciously directing them towards one goal: avoiding a rejection.”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

“Unless someone specifically tells you that they have a problem with you, you should assume that they don’t;”
― Alex Partridge, Why Does Everybody Hate Me?: Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria