Let’s talk about the #millennial urge to adopt the personality of a manic pixie dream girl back in their early 20’s and then later identify as an empath in their 30’s.
You possibly grew up in a stressful and/or traumatic environment where you had to predict and manage another persons emotions in order to maintain physical/emotional safety. Scanning other’s emotions is your trauma superpower but it’s a double edge sword.
You are comfortable as the caretaker and continue to repeat this pattern in friendships/romantic relationships valuing other’s emotions and needs over your own.
You’re exhausted by it unable to see the truth that you were not put on this earth to be just a supporting character. You are in fact the protagonist of your life only responsible for your growth.
Disclaimer: (these tweets are nothing more than highly generalized hyperbolic observations that have no empirical data to support them other than me, the person tweeting, making fun of myself.)
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