“I’m a classic example of getting in your own way”
” Being judged. Which is a stupid fear when I think about it. I say its a stupid fear knowing that its totally valid because any feeling is valid. Its your feelings no one can tell you not to have them… I think that sometimes it makes me feel weak”
“General vulnerability..It makes me feel like I’m in a very head high that I can’t get out of and that shit is so uncomfortable. You’re thinking too fast and so much and no one else can hear it but you think they can. I make a considerate effort to protect myself from that”
“Taking smaller risk or understanding my limits”
“After my accident it was really difficult to hold a conversation and make eye contact”
“Vulnerability to me means weakness which means somebody is going to attack you for it….it makes me feel weak because its like a reminder to me that I’m just as fallible as anyone else and that I shouldn’t be so hard on myself and that its okay to feel uncomfortable and that in fact isn’t a weakness yet I always make that connection that vulnerability is a weakness and its something you should protect yourself against when ultimately its part of you”
Temitope Olutunmbi (28)
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