Like, "oh, you did NOT actually need it affirmed to you that what you want matters, you are clearly already WELL aware of that."
That's just sort of mind-boggling to me. I know such people exist, but personally most of my friendship skills are adapted towards making people feel that they *do* matter & *are* important even when they don't feel it.
I do not have many friendship skills for relating to people that are already quite convinced that their needs & wishes matter, & are perhaps significantly less concerned about reassuring others of the same, perhaps because they don't need that reassurance themselves.
I do not have many friendship skills for relating to people that are already quite convinced that their needs & wishes matter, & are perhaps significantly less concerned about reassuring others of the same, perhaps because they don't need that reassurance themselves.
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