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Being a perfectionist is like playing a rigged carnival game. It’s presented as easy and within reach when it’s actually impossible and unattainable. People who are expected by others, or expect themselves, to be perfect are trapped in a nonsensical world where normal and difficult are confused with perfect and easy. Unable to achieve perfection, they’re bombarded with messages that they’re not thinking, feeling, or performing normally:
Everyone else manages to keep their house in order while working full-time and raising kids.
No one else has to work this hard just to get by.
None of the other moms have a hard time getting up with their kids in the morning.
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