i have this impulse, i can’t control it. my parents say i’ve always been particular, but as i grew up it reached a point that it wasn’t acceptable. every situation, whether i knew what i was doing or not, i felt a need to commandeer it and do it my way. the sympathy or lack thereof i showed for others was overt. one example is 9th grade math class. when working with partners i would never let them do anything, even if i was having trouble. i remember once we were finding the angles of an obtuse triangle and i did the whole thing with such stubbornness i did the whole question wrong, but refused to change it. stubbornly independent- that was what my whole life had become.