LibraryScenariosWhen your identity depends on being special or different
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When your identity depends on being special or different

I can see that my whole personality is organized around being interesting and I do not know what would be left if I stopped performing uniqueness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Specialness narratives create exhausting performance pressure while preventing genuine connection through shared humanity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Narrative therapy and story-rewriting?”

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