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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What was the holdup that ended up preventing you from getting ahead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cripling anxiety and despair.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm here for you. I can relate to that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Subconscious self-loathing as a result of trying to memory hole something evil I did when very young.

Also a desperate reliance on others’ praise and approval due to emotional abuse from my mother.

A warped model of accomplishment resulting from all the praise I got for easily mastering concepts, coupled with vicious gaslighting and moral attacks I suffered whenever I strove for something difficult.

And many other things which I’m just starting to uncover.

I kind of feel like a programmer sleuthing out bugs in a product, but while I spend time sleuthing out the cause of my product not working, the trade show is half over.