1. Please be patient while I decide if I can trust you.

2. Let me tell you my story. The whole story. In my own way.

3. Please accept that whatever I may have done, whatever I may do is the
best I have to offer and seemed right at the time.

4. I am not 'a' person. I am THIS person, unique and special.

5. Don't judge me as right or wrong, bad or good. I am what I am and
that is all I have got.

6. Don't assume that your knowledge about me is more accurate than mine.
You only know what I have told you. That's only part of me.

7. Don't ever think that you know what I should do - you don't. I may
be confused, but I am still the expert about me.

8. Don't place me in a position of living up to your expectations. I
have enough trouble with mine.

9. Please hear my feelings, not just my words - accept all of them. If
you can't, how can I?

10. Don't save me. I can do it myself. I knew enough to ask for your
help, didn't I? Help me to better myself.