Is honesty always the best policy?
For years, after being released from my final hospital, I elicited visually obvious (facial expressions) statements and spoke blatantly, sans filtration, all of the time, with everyone.
My MDs warned my parents that this’d take place. After-all, filters are built over time, when we mentally process our experiences. We then learn valuable lessons from each expression. All of my experiences, after arising from my coma, were seemingly new, due to my complete lack of memory. I had 0 memory of lessons learned in the previous 29 years. That was the precipice of learning all, anew.
This is an incredibly personal disability!
I want to thank, profusely, all of my friends & family who were confronted with this unabashed Olivia and reacted kindly. That was the vast majority! I love my people!!
Just one old friend is lastingly offended. I understand why & will forever be sorry.
To the couple of my new fleeting Bellingham associates, that have consequently vindictively overreacted while refusing to respect that I am a severely disabled individual: your loss. I have no interest in befriending obviously unsympathetic & unkind individuals. So, we’re in agreement!
Very thankfully, (it’s about time!) I can once again choose, to what degree & when honesty is appropriate.