Nafisa King’s Reviews > Are You Mad at Me? > Status Update

“If you have been stuck in the fawn response from an early age, it’s normal to feel behind in life or to feel like you’re meeting yourself only now, as an adult, because others your age were able to develop and explore while you were surviving and pleasing others”

“When we fawn but call it empathy, it becomes a fast track to resenting any and all relationships that ask something of us. Empathy without boundaries can easily become self-betrayal.”

“Pain travels through families until someone is ready to face it.”
And my review is about to be as long as a whole thesis paper.

“I’m the youngest child but the only daughter, so I might as well be the oldest child.” BARS

“No child can be “good enough” to earn a functional childhood when their parents are in so much pain of their own and are stuck in their own unprocessed trauma”

“Most people pleasers were “parent pleasers” first” A WORD