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397 I grew up being told I was too sensitive and I spent the next twenty-five years building an entire personality around not reacting. Now I’m the person everyone calls steady and nobody calls close, and I can trace the distance in every relationship I have back to a single word a teacher used when I was nine.

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Lachlan Brown @ Silicon Canals Ā· 03/22/2026 01:04 EDT

I grew up being told I was too sensitive and I spent the next twenty-five years building an entire personality around not reacting. Now I’m the person everyone calls steady and nobody calls close, and I can trace the distance in every relationship I have back to a single word a teacher used when I was nine.

The most emotionally stable people you know may have built that composure from childhood suppression, not wisdom. When a single label at age nine teaches a child their feelings are wrong, the next 25 years become a construction project that earns admiration but costs intimacy.

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