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A Bunch of Stuff I Shouted Into My Phone While Driving aka OK GOOGLE TAKE A NOTE

I am attracted to people who are not available in order to keep myself safe.

 I can ask for what I need and for what I want and expect that that will be respected.

I don't have to agree to things just to keep the peace.

It's okay to say no.

 Much of my life has been informed by poverty and parenting.

 Reading was a protective factor. I could escape into books when things were terrible and those books saved me and taught me more about life than my parents could.

I am a capable adult. I am a capable adult because I raised myself that way. I'm capable in spite of how I was raised, not because my parents raised me to be capable.

[My childhood] set me up to accept abuse as normal
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