i feel like this needs to be said: you literally can’t ask or expect anyone to drop everything for you and operate under your terms at all times. you can’t expect people to always be there for you and always choose you in any given ultimatum. sacrifice cannot be expected or asked for, it has to be freely given. and just because someone loves you, that doesn’t mean everything they do will be done with you in mind. if you have a problem with that, then you are the problem.
the amount of people in the tags saying this is ignorant and condescending towards mentally ill people is honestly astounding. as a mentally ill person, i recognize being mentally ill is not an excuse to be abusive; and yes, that’s exactly what this is. it’s abusive to expect other people to dedicate their lives to you.
dirk, who loves artificial orange flavor but spent his entire life on a tower in the middle of the ocean and therefore has never tasted an actual orange, one day finally gets the opportunity to taste a real one, fresh and ripe from jades garden, and, again, having no experience with real fresh fruits or vegetables, lifts the damn thing to his mouth and just takes a bite, rind and all,