Dr. William (Bill) Dodson
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The other very common one is perfectionism.
I'm going to be so good, an overachiever.
I'm going to do the very best.
Nobody's better.
And most of all, I'm going to be above reproach.
Nobody can find anything wrong with me.
It's a trap because you have to keep doing it all the time.
Today's audience does not applaud yesterday's performance.
And it's that your acceptance, I believe, is entirely conditional.
You slip up once, you're out.
And so it's a very, very hard life.
You talk about somebody with a mask.
Perfectionists live in a mask.
The old saying, people with ADHD have to work twice as hard for half as much.
And they're willing to.
They really don't know themselves.
They can tell you all about other people.
They can read other people better than they know themselves because that's what they do all day long.
And so when they finally don't need to do that, there's a huge emptiness.
First of all, they mourn their life to that point.