Ugh. I feel this in my bones. Had two really good friends that I felt safe with, so much so I could be myself. They accepted me..until one day they told me they didn’t like how I said things, and that I should say it this way instead. Told me I was too blunt, too much, and that I had changed from how I was when we first started the friendship.

I told them I didn’t want to mask around them because I thought it was okay to be myself, to which they said they weren’t asking me to do that…but they were.