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Great Topic!!!
I have briefly written about being a loner on several posts. I grew up in an urban neighborhood, full of the usual rogues gallery of kids you find in the city. I was always the odd one out and the go to guy for being picked on. Since I have been receiving treatment, I have had to review my childhood, and teen years and since I could remember, I would rather be alone, doing my own thing, rather than be with others. Yet at the same time look at people who get along in groups with envy… That would be a whole new topic.
I keep saying I have agoraphobia, but that isn’t quite right. I don’t like being in the open, because I don’t like being “Watched”. My parents knew I was not “Normal” and monitored me fairly closely. I don’t like crowds, because crowds take so much energy for me to deal with distractions, noise, multiple conversations… the list goes on. Agoraphobia is just an easy tag to put on it.
I am content to be by myself, tinkering with a project around the house, doing my chores and going about my business. Do I need people. No. I resist the tag of “Loner” because of all the negative connotations that go with it, thanks to our entertainment/news programs.
Would I classify myself as a loner? No.
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