So, I'm not too into the whole Teenie-bopper movie book series thing but did see Divergent in the theaters this week * Spoiler alert if you have no clue what I'm talking about, stop reading*.

Us Borderlines, a term, doctors even hate saying put us into a group of people that lack " conformity" so to speak. We get super angry and lash out, we say inappropriate things, do inappropriate things, or frankly speaking just feel more passion than the typical and act on impulse of what we fee....l am I right?

Those Victorian era ideals of keeping your head down, always be polite, never express anger, don't show your emotions, BE F*cking HAPPY ALL THE TIME etc is still how society teaches us to be. However for some reason that special 1% of the population ( us borderlines) tend to break those rules A LOT. Like Tris, we just don't fit the mold, we don't fit in a specified group or category of people except our own "divergent" club. We are the crazies everyone points their fingers at. 

For one people with BPD tend to be on the intelligent to highly intelligent spectrum. We are also the really good musicians, artists, poets, mathematicians,athletes, writers.... there is some serious talent up in this house! So I would like to get a feed on more positive aspects of BPD. What are the good things about it. 

My brother posted something on facebook today that said "Some say I'm too sensitive but the truth is I feel too much. Every word, every action, and every energy goes straight to my heart." Does anyone else feel like this?? Most if not all of us should have this very emotional side to us, but why is this soo "wrong"? We feel things so intensely but it often leads to self harm because we don't feel "right" because we don't conform like everyone else. But who'se to say that we are the wrong ones in the first place. Upon diagnosis, we are then put into this lonely group of misfits with a 90% survival rate ( I would really like to change this statistic and give hope to our cool club that we can make it and we aren't alone and change that statistic to a 100% survival rate). We are told what tools to use to conform and act like normal people. I'm not knocking therapy at all, I really love it, but the point I'm trying to make is that it's sad we have to conform in order to get "better" 

 In DBT we are taught to classify our emotions as primary and secondary to better understand them and fix problems that arise by addressing the primary emotion then working on to accepting but also controlling our secondary emotions. As I said before, we don't fit into the mold because of the nature of BPD, we express very "wildly" what we are feeling and society doesn't like that so we hold back these emotions, hide them from the world to see and try to fit in with the "norm" when we aren't accepting how great it is we are so deeply intuitive. We have a superhuman power to FEEL things unlike the 99% of the rest of the population and it's borderline trait. Anyone else think this is pretty cool?? How can we embrace this super human emotion and use it as fuel to drive ourselves in a positive direction instead of feeling like the roller coaster ride we are on is not in our control and could be used for the good? We are special, hell we are the 1%. Anyone have any thoughts on this subject??