Over the years she has often said that people need to be understanding of how it takes me a lot of time to come forward and express how I am feeling (I am 26 now).

The most recent time I can think of  her saying this to me is a couple of years ago when I broke up with my boyfriend back in 2016 for a while. I couldn’t hide the heartache so she would be there for me. Though I would pick and choose what I would relay to her. I have always been careful about what I express and tell. At this time she said something along the lines of ‘he should know this about you, he should know it takes you a while to discuss problems. You have always been this way. Something would happen at school, or something would upset you but it would take you two-three weeks before telling me’

I believe I was perhaps born this way. I haven’t known any different and nothing significant happened in my childhood to alter me in such a way.