This is going to sound super odd, and I hope that y’all can give space for a healthy, ethical & empowering interpretation of this statement to exist…but I am going to stop worrying about whether I’m offending someone or not. It’s making me lose connection to myself, my personal values & opinions. It’s making it difficult for me to tolerate being misunderstood. In which, part of emotional maturity is accepting that we will sometimes (more likely often) will be invalidated & misunderstood.