34. Rejection Sensitivity (2)

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[Title] NARRATOR: “Rejection Sensitivity Explained”

[Panel 1] BOY: “Oh, thanks.”

[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “When people react neutrally to me, I think they secretly hate me.”

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “It’s like my logic turns off and an emergency mode turns on.”

[Panel 1] ALIEN (thought): “I must’ve done some-thing wrong”

[Panel 1] ALIEN (thought): “I need to figure out what I did wrong”

[Panel 1] ALIEN (thought): ""Did I overstep?""

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “I’ve learnt that only enthusiastic responses are safe responses.”

[Panel 2] CHART LABEL: “Enthusiastic safe reaction ✓”

[Panel 3] CHART LABEL: “Neutral ✗ Danger! Rejection possible!”

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “Because if I didn’t excel as a child, I would always get scolded for something.”

[Panel 1] MOM: “Why did you leave your wet coat on?!”

[Panel 1] ALIEN (as a child): “I didn’t even notice…”

[Panel 2] MOM: “Did you come home without shoes?!”

[Panel 2] ALIEN (as a child): “Oh? I don’t know.”

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “There would be this endless cycle of being scolded out of nowhere,”

[Panel 2] NARRATOR: “not being able to regulate emotions well because of ADHD,”

[Panel 3] NARRATOR: “and then being scolded for “overreacting”.”

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “As a child, being rejected and abandoned is life threatening.”

[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “so it makes sense that as an adult, this fear is still hardwired into me.”

[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “I never knew when I would get rejected, so I never fully felt safe.”

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[Panel 1] ALIEN: “You’re not over-reacting.”

[Panel 1] ALIEN: “It makes sense that you’re trying to prevent rejection.”

[Panel 1] ALIEN: “Feeling anxious is not proof of rejection,”

[Panel 1] ALIEN: “it might just be a relic of the past.”

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “But I’m still convinced that woman staring at me last year absolutely hated my guts.”

[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “(She was most likely just zoned out…)”

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