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bsp77 posted...

Unfortunately, yes. And it's not really healthy. I think some interest in acceptance can be healthy, as it is good to find people who accept you for you. But that acceptance shouldn't involve anxiety or ever being untrue to oneself.

I'd be a little apprehensive of someone who said they didn't care about what anybody thought of them. That seems a little sociopathic, even for me (I don't have a fondness for most of humanity).

But it's entirely possible I'm taking the entire maxim of being yourself too literally again. That's kind of an unintended consequence of being autistic. :)

I think a more reasonable thing is to try to train yourself to only value the opinions of those who are important to you.