#posting for all the fellow mild mannered bitches out there (gender neutral)

[hopecomesbacktolife]

when you’ve been talked over for long enough in a group setting, someone actually shutting the fuck up and listening to what you have to say often feels like the silent treatment and like they’re pouting but I promise you, it’s not*. your words have value, you have value, you deserve the space to speak and be listened to and appreciated for your thoughts and ideas, to be an equal participant in the conversation

*and if it is (rare, not likely, zebra-not-horse kind of situation that it would be!) then it’s a sign u deserve better, so much better, in those you choose to spend your time with. people who are gonna be put out because you talked are not good people. please know you deserve to be seen and valued and listened to and heard ♡

this isn’t a specific “subtweet” btw. it’s a rumination on behavior I have on many occasions experienced, and subsequent subconscious reactions to people being Good TM (although if the shoe fits… jk unless) but I write this because as a softer-spoken person this happens too fucking often and we all deserve people who listen