I made a huge, long post about how kids I don't know coming up and being friendly with me easily sends me into a slight panic that I have to work on controlling in order to be nice to the child, let them feel seen, heard and understood and and do my best to keep them away from possible dangers until their parent or guardian comes along-
Also how a seemingly small, innocent situation that happened during my parenting classes fücks me up and makes me cry when I think back on it because of a few dark reasons that I don't want to get into right now-
Anyways...I made a huge, long, detailed post about it, but I deleted it at the last minute instead of pushing the publish button, because I feared that it would trigger horrific memories in people.
Me: I wonder why random kids find me so approachable and randomly come up to me as if I'm their friend to play games and stuff 😅
What I fear people think: Uhg, look at this bítch. She's pretending to not understand, but she's actually bragging about how great she is with kids.
What's actually going on:
ALMOST EVERY TIME THIS HAPPENS, IT SENDS ME INTO A PANIC THAT I HAVE TO WORK HARD TO KEEP UNDER CONTROL AND I WISH I COULD GET RID OF WHATEVER ATTRACTS THEM TO ME SO I'D NEVER HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THIS AGAIN, BUT I FEAR THAT THE ONLY THING I CAN DO IS MAKE MYSELF LOOK SCARY TO KIDS, BUT I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO SCARE KIDS OR MAKE THEM UNCOMFORTABLE, I JUST WANT THEM TO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE MY EXISTENCE UNLESS THEY NEED HELP WITH AN EMERGENCY OR SOMETHING- GOD, HELP ME!!
I cried while writing the post that I deleted. Hopefully this one is much more light hearted and maybe even a bit funny or something...
I'm gonna go try to forget about terrifying things about the world now. Ttyl, I guess.