I generally feel like an outsider and rather than participating in a conversation, I feel like I’m outside of it and so I oftentimes start judging the conversation and the people in the conversation negatively in my head.
I want to try and change this behavior, but not sure where to begin. I’m in therapy and will definitely bring it up to my therapist, but hoping there’s a book that can help me in this area.
Open, and actually would prob prefer fiction, if there’s something there that anyone thinks hits the nail on the head for this topic. Thank you.
by charizardwasmydad
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Fiction in general can help with developing empathy. reading the thoughts and feelings of people who are different than you. I would suggest figuring out what traits of the people around you are bothering you and finding a main character with those traits. Or perhaps relating the people around you to characters you already like
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen. It’s a young adult novel about two neighbor kids growing up. What I like about it is it switches between the POV of the girl and the boy, and they often end up both describing the same interaction, so you see how two different people vary in their perspective. Don’t brush it off as a fluffy kids book – I think it’s a great story on developing empathy and really seeing/hearing other people.