If you are going to help me...

1. Please be patient while I decide if I can trust you.
2. Let me tell you my story. The whole story. In my own way.
3. Please accept that whatever I may have done, whatever I may do is the best I have to offer and seemed right at the time.
4. I am not 'a' person. I am THIS person, unique and special.
5. Don't judge me as right or wrong, bad or good. I am what I am and that is all I have got.
6. Don't assume that your knowledge about me is more accurate than mine. You only know what I have told you. That's only part of me.
7. Don't ever think that you know what I should do - you don't. I may be confused, but I am still the expert about me.
8. Don't place me in a position of living up to your expectations. I have enough trouble with mine.
9. Please hear my feelings, not just my words - accept all of them. If you can't, how can I?
10. Don't save me. I can do it myself. I knew enough to ask for your help, didn't I? Help me to better myself.

    
    

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