Thursday April 9, 2026 | Journal Prompt | Other people's feelings
I am careful not to hurt other people's feelings. Sometimes I hurt people's feelings unintentionally. When I am able to I will say I'm sorry. One time in my early thirties I was watching my cousin James-- I think he was 3 at the time. I became so anxious around my cousin James and shortly there after I became anxious around Tom (Lisa's ex-husband). He was such an asshole. Even more, Tom was an asshole to my aunt Lisa. I thought I was going to have to kick Tom's ass! Oh I would have kicked his ass! I'm glad that Lisa kicked Tom to the curb! I didn't know what anxiety was until I looked up "selective mutism" on wikipedia back in 2011 and do you know what my mom said. She said, "you don't have that". Yeah, don't believe everything you hear or read. Well where am I supposed to read it? I refused to believe that. What I read on wikipedia.org is an official site. I was anxious around Lisa's kids an...