@admitsWrongIfProven I'm afraid, I must confess, it is my greatest sorrow that I am guilty of this :(

@OpenComputeDesign Sorry, i was imprecise and lost in thought that i neglected to explain.
Please do check if any signs of affection you give are welcome, though.

@admitsWrongIfProven Don't be sorry. I have absolutely screwed up and caused damage. And I definitely deserve consequences.

I am ignorant in ways I don't know how to fix, but even so it is my own fault.

@OpenComputeDesign Is it still possible to ask about what you did wrong and learn from it? The willingness to do better is a good first step, and admitting wrong should help too.

@admitsWrongIfProven Oh boy, where do I start... (I'm a very problematic individual)

Around the time my little sister started puberty, I realized I wasn't gonna have her in my life forever before she'd go off to do her own thing. So I started showering her in all the affection I could. (At this point, it wasn't unwanted yet, although that doesn't mean it was a good idea or well executed as I'll get to)

Turns out, the socially incompetent person I am, I might have been going too far..

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@admitsWrongIfProven Because our parents started having private conversations with her about me and my behaviour. And after a while, banned us from spending too much time together, being alone together, sitting together, etc.

At this point I spend the next several years trying to secretly sneak time with her, ignorant of the fact she was, and becoming increasingly more so, traumatized of affection.

At this point I should also mention I have a long history of instability and depression

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@admitsWrongIfProven Well of course all this made my depression vastly worse. And I'm afraid for some time now I've been trying to convince my little sister not to love me anymore because I deserve no forgiveness for what I've done and caused

This of course, because I'm such a dipshit, has hurt her even more

Also I'm just generally the kind of blind idiot that if for example I want to ask someone something, I'll follow them around until I realize they're running from the weirdo following them

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@OpenComputeDesign I can see that not beating oneself up and concomitant acceptance of having done something wrong is not easy.

Are you getting professional help for your depression? Need to help yourself before you can protect others.

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