Big time.
“Friends”, workers, people who I don’t know. All have screwed me over to varying degrees:
- I work to a high standard, others look at me like “you’re a sucker”
- I’m “nice” to women, that gets me the friend zone
- I promote others in art, that gets me ignored and left behind.
It comes from being raised by two narcissist parents who look at me like an object, who forced me to accept that lying, backstabbing and deceit was acceptable and normal, along with being their child counsellor and weighed down with excessive responsibility. So I as a person doesn’t exist. That makes me as an adult “narc bait”, “easy to manipulate”.
- I can’t tell anyone to cut it out (I’m not heard or believed anyway)
- I’ll keep it to myself (no one will listen to me anyway)
- I can’t be real (no one will validate it anyway)
- I won’t reveal myself (it will be dismissed, mocked and ridiculed)
- I won’t express my emotions (no one will respect it)
- I won’t trust anybody (as trust was broken with zero fucks given).
So it’s a basic lack of respect I’ve grown up to accept as normal. But Dragon Fire will change that.