The Thing You Like Most...

[Asif]

Many stutterers seem to share something in common:
How they see themselves.

Self-respect - for a stutterer - is as elusive, as hard to grasp and hold, as a wet mackerel.
So I tried an experiment on my wife.
She does not stutter, but even she had trouble with this:

"What is the thing you like most about yourself?"

She was unable to answer. She got more and more uncomfortable.
I answered for her, what I thought was her best point:
"You are kind".

She seemed happy enough with that, but still, not sure.

What I said I liked most about myself was:
"My Resilience".
No matter what happens and has happened to me along the way, I am still able to be as I am today: someone I genuinely like and respect.
This was not always so!

What is it about you that you like the most?

[sst]

What I like most about myself? I have the courage to wear white after Labor Day.

[emily445455]

Hmm....can't think of anything..... :confused:

[eva]

What I like most about myself? I have the courage to wear white after Labor Day.
Lol.


The things I like most about myself are open-mindedness and adaptability.

I can also easily name things I don't like about myself. We all have our weaknesses. But in general, I like myself and also accept the bad side. I enjoy writing so much because that is how I can have an honest discussion with myself. I can have a laugh or cry just by myself, I enjoy it and it gives me a lot of strength to know who I am.

[Violet]

what do i like about myself??

hmmm...

well recently i have decided that i like that
my eyes change colour..
my left ear has a weird kink in it so it looks like a pixie ear..
and that my third toes are the longest.
:D
haha

but then again for everything that i like about myself, there are a zillion other things i dislike.. like my right ear.. and that i'm too overly sensitive... and that i'm too tall.. and not very strong.. and of course that i often can't say what i want to say because of this damn stutter... and the list goes on..

haha i suppose everyone has just been conditioned to compare themselves to others and envy what they don't have and hate themselves.. how sad of us. :(

but then i can't say that i'm gonna break that mould because I honestly feel as if i'm no good... lol blame my evil stepmother for that! (who is, in reality, quite evil - i'm not just saying that :p)

[Paranoid]

My unearthly black metal voice.

[Asif]

My unearthly black metal voice.

Darth Vader liked being hated the most of all.
Everyone is different.

[nate]

my tenacity and my consequent triumph over "anger". i have a very very high boiling point. in fact very few people can make me angry anymore. in fact i havent met anyone in the last 2 years. Frightened, anxious, lost yes...angry no!
and i wasnt always like that either.
nate

[Count]

and that i'm too tall..

My cousin is 176 cm tall and she is very happy with it.

[Asif]

in fact very few people can make me angry anymore. in fact i havent met anyone in the last 2 years.
nate

The fact - as you put it - that you haven't met anyone in the last two years might account for the lack of anger.
But if I misread that, ach man, the feminists must have gotten to you.
"Explore your feminine side"...etc... :)

Smacking certain people around sometimes can be extraordinarly satisfying.
You know it, I know it, all men know it.
But we must - for some weird reason - never, ever admit it.
Oops!

[Asif]

Resilience, like I said earlier is what I like most about myself.
Everything that some people would label "bad", might upset me for a while, but not only do I come back from it stronger, I use what I have learned from it to my advantage.

[Violet]

My cousin is 176 cm tall and she is very happy with it.

haha well i'm 174 so i suppose its not THAT bad...

[chris2112]

The fact - as you put it - that you haven't met anyone in the last two years might account for the lack of anger.
But if I misread that, ach man, the feminists must have gotten to you.
"Explore your feminine side"...etc... :)

Smacking certain people around sometimes can be extraordinarly satisfying.
You know it, I know it, all men know it.
But we must - for some weird reason - never, ever admit it.
Oops!

haha I have to disagree with you. Anger feels quite foreign to me most of the time. When I see someone get all worked up and angry at a situation I sit back and think its insane. Anger is futile, it only builds up negativity and holds you back. I feel no pleasure smacking any living thing around. Some people may think thats because of fear of confrontation but its not, its out of relization, relization that hurting others is only hurting yourself were all a part of the same thing here. I will use violence only when needed for the safety of me or others, and I will not take any pleasure in it when that happens. I feel no less of a man because of that, only more of a person.

[chris2112]

I guess I just answered what I like about my self, my ability to create my own views and stand by them, even if they are agaisnt widely held beliefs and prejudices :)

[Asif]

haha I have to disagree with you. Anger feels quite foreign to me most of the time. When I see someone get all worked up and angry at a situation I sit back and think its insane. Anger is futile, it only builds up negativity and holds you back. I feel no pleasure smacking any living thing around. Some people may think thats because of fear of confrontation but its not, its out of relization, relization that hurting others is only hurting yourself were all a part of the same thing here. I will use violence only when needed for the safety of me or others, and I will not take any pleasure in it when that happens. I feel no less of a man because of that, only more of a person.

You are right of course: absolutely: but when the need does arise...
:)

[happy7117]

I like everything about myself, EXCEPT the stuttering!

Arrogant answer, but this is an aggrogant thread!

Do we always feel arrogant at New Year's time??