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It’s Hard Being This Perfect
Our perfectionism always starts somewhere.
By Grace K. Bianco
This is when I got the names, “Perfect Little Grace,” or “Miss Perfect.”
Perfectionism is one of the topics that I see a lot on Medium. So many writers seem to struggle with their own version of it, and I have come to realize just how big of a spectrum perfectionism is on.
Some think of it as overly tidy/clean, some are perfectionist writers, some are people pleasers, etc. There really are all kinds of perfectionists.
I personally fall into the goodie two shoes and people pleasing side. If I offend or upset you no matter how small, I will be wrecked for days. I simply cannot handle the slightest bit of disappointing someone else.
I feel like I have always had this tendency, but there is a very distinct part of my childhood where it very obviously developed into a real issue.
I wasn’t always a people pleaser, but I was a rule follower.
My last article was about how I used to struggle with anger. In that article, I expressed…
