[0:01]good morning fellow humans it's
[0:05]noon I've been up an hour or
[0:08]so did some dishes made some
[0:12]Cofe it's a little difficult to sit here
[0:14]because we're kind of angled a little
[0:16]bit not a lot probably like I don't even
[0:20]know 5
[0:24]10° Apparently that is enough to just
[0:26]set your ears off or whatever you know
[0:28]it's a balancing I think
[0:30]cuz I do not feel Lov one it's difficult
[0:34]been like this for a week sleeping on my
[0:37]bed like this is not
[0:41]fun I might do something about it today
[0:44]it's Thursday if I'm going to do it it
[0:46]needs to be today because I won't do it
[0:48]on the weekends when there are people
[0:50]everywhere so it's either today or maybe
[0:56]Monday so I want to acknowledge some
[0:59]things I think haven't really thought
[1:01]any of this
[1:04]through I don't know why this small
[1:07]space is so hard for
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[1:10]me there are times in my life including
[1:13]my 30s where I had to live in my
[1:17]bedroom because my parents either lived
[1:21]with me or I lived with
[1:23]them and being around my father I was
[1:27]constantly
[1:30]analyzing his
[1:32]mood because it always felt like
[1:36]he was just judging me didn't want me
[1:40]around made me feel
[1:46]inferior that's called hypervigilance
[1:48]that's what I grow up with that's what
[1:50]I've experienced for a large portion of
[1:52]my
[1:55]life and that that is very toxic to a
[1:59]person it's a a very deep poison that
[2:03]you put inside of your child and
[2:07]just shape them
[2:11]into something they were never meant to
[2:15]be people can be hypervigilant for
[2:18]different reasons in my case it's my
[2:21]father probably my mother too you know
[2:24]I'm starting to recognize my mother
[2:26]wasn't a
[2:27]saint I think that I needed that
[2:30]cognitive dissonance in my life in order
[2:32]just to survive I had to at least have
[2:34]one parent that was a good parent but
[2:37]she
[2:40]wasn't she didn't know how to comfort
[2:43]her
[2:44]children ever this was a woman who never
[2:48]hugged us when I bring that up she says
[2:51]I'm just trying to make her feel bad no
[2:52]I'm trying to tell you that it really
[2:54]sucked that I didn't have a mother who
[2:56]would hug me
[3:02]growing up that way being the kind of
[3:04]person I am with the cognitive style
[3:07]that I
[3:08]have with the high Sensitivity I
[3:12]have I knew I was different that's
[3:20]obvious and rather than seeing that as a
[3:23]unique strength that I had my whole life
[3:25]I saw it as something
[3:28]that was just Dam DED broken
[3:41]wrong it
[3:45]is I'm just angry these
[3:49]days I I deserve
[3:51]better we all
[3:54]do some people shouldn't have
[3:56]kids as far as I'm concerned
[4:00]I've said before they are broken and I
[4:02]am broken because of them that's true
[4:05]it's still
[4:06]true but I have found something inside
[4:09]of
[4:12]me it's like I've integrated this new
[4:19]knowledge I do see now that they are the
[4:22]problem and it was never
[4:24]me that doesn't mean I don't have a lot
[4:27]of things in my head that are going to
[4:30]require some
[4:34]reprogramming and that's a journey I
[4:36]will be on probably for a very long time
[4:39]perhaps the rest of my
[4:43]life I didn't feel worthy I didn't take
[4:47]care of myself because I didn't feel
[4:52]worthy my parents are to blame for
[4:55]that they are
[5:00]it's not just them though it's also
[5:08]Society people convince me that being
[5:12]gay made
[5:17]me
[5:22]unworthy it's taking me a long time to
[5:25]understand that point of view
[5:30]has no
[5:32]weight
[5:35]and we were making progress and now
[5:38]we're moving backwards
[5:41]again and it's
[5:43]because most
[5:45]humans a lot of
[5:48]them are too sh to
[5:52]understand just how shellow they
[5:58]are these are the things that I have to
[6:00]think
[6:03]about I don't choose to think about them
[6:06]they're just there they're part of my
[6:08]awareness they're not even judgments
[6:10]they're
[6:15]observations I have always
[6:18]felt
[6:21]different separate from this
[6:24]world the avatar for my YouTube channel
[6:28]many of my social works is a picture of
[6:30]an earth with a guy standing off looking
[6:33]at
[6:35]it and that's what it feels
[6:38]like it's what it's always felt
[6:43]like so I did some thinking
[6:46]about my video before posting it which
[6:49]you know this is attached to the end
[6:52]now I realized that my
[6:56]hypervigilance likely
[7:00]exacerbated the problem with my dad for
[7:04]example because I'm constantly
[7:08]hypervigilant even if he's just in a
[7:11]normal state of
[7:14]being that would influence him to put
[7:17]his own guard
[7:19]up and I need to acknowledge that
[7:22]because this is a new insight for me at
[7:25]the same
[7:26]time that hypervigilance came from
[7:28]somewhere
[7:31]so it was like this cyclical pattern
[7:34]that
[7:36]just made everything worse and because
[7:39]my father doesn't have my cognitive
[7:41]style he doesn't think about these
[7:44]things he wasn't able to address
[7:48]it the same with my mother the fact that
[7:52]I'm hypervigilant means that there's
[7:55]even though I'm very
[7:57]open there's still a around me and maybe
[8:01]that made it harder for her to hug
[8:03]me at the same time she's the parent she
[8:07]should do it
[8:09]anyways these these insights matter they
[8:13]don't excuse the behavior but they
[8:16]show they
[8:19]show my part in
[8:24]them and that's important so I just need
[8:26]to attach that to the end of this