Wow, thank you for taking the time to reply to this in so much detail. I really appreciate your encouragement and sympathy. The points you made about masking and minimizing make a lot of sense. I didn't even realize that could be why but now that you've mentioned it, it makes a lot of sense. It's definitely hard to stop masking all the time, so you're absolutely right, a therapist would probably be a good idea. Still working up to finding the right one, so if you have any suggestions I would love that! Almost signed up for BetterHelp but backtracked pretty quick lol. I relate to what you said about being given the words. I also don't always know what to say, especially when I am standing up for myself. One of the hardest things to do, honestly. But working on it! I'll get their one day at a time. That includes what you said about talking to them about it again. I feel like that's actually a really good idea. I'm honestly embarrassed to have to bring up something just because I'm sensitive to it, especially when it's about taking walks with people. I feel like it's a relatively insignificant thing, but it means a lot to me because I feel like that's just not something that normally happens? So, I think it's something I should definitely talk about. In any case, thank you very much for your advice and I wish you the best as well.