User blog comment:Noctum Caeruleus/Aided Reflection/@comment-24087318-20141017140529

You need to grow a pair of balls. Mostly for two reasons.

1) So you can actually tell people what REALLY bothers you so it can stop (If it's not obvious, just being mildly uncomfortable isn't making people back off, it's making them do it more. Like cat allergies. They flock to you)

2) So you can actually be confident in yourself enough to not give a fuck what other people think about you. You're you, how you act, as long as it's 100% true to you and yourself, while it may not be accepted by everybody, your true friends will not be pushed away by it.