Artemis on Nostr: I'm settling into the idea that my emotional experiences are not so completely ...

I'm settling into the idea that my emotional experiences are not so completely different from other people's—the way I often felt as a child—but that I experience emotion at a higher *intensity* than a lot of other people.

That can still be very painful, but it's not nearly as isolating as when I used to feel so very alien.

These days I'm a little more conscious of the ways my emotional experience can connect me to other people & a little less fearful that it will isolate me.