
Well it's a combo of unrelenting kindness and friendliness, plus strict boundaries and being unafraid to say the complete sentence that is 'No'. I learned my lesson already (a billion times over) that if you give ppl an inch, they'll take a mile and then some 😭 But! There's no reason to stop being kind/friendly! I refuse to ever let anyone or anything steal my sparkle.
I used to have HORRIBLE social anxiety. A part of it for me, was I felt super disconnected from others, almost like other ppl were alien. Like they were invading my reality and it'd send my system into shock/panic. Or I'd just try to hard to try to present myself in ways that'd fit in to their world. Then I realized we're all in the same boat, we're all in the game of life together. We're all family.