I tend to be complaisant,
seem 'easy-going' -
but 'down the line'
I burst into anger
when my complaisance is imperiously,
unacceptably exploited,
taken for granted.
This is how I lose friends.
They then say I am 'difficult', 'cantankerous'.
All because I cannot say No at the outset
because of an anxiousness to please, a timidity
which the French,
with their mots-justes call 'farouche'.
The English have many nice metaphors,
such as 'a square peg' (in a round hole).
Now I simply 'keep my distance' from people
whilst admiring their dogs,
and hoping that, for the next few years,
there won't be any pogroms
of the Unsocialised.
I have developed a condition which I call
Late-Onset Acquired Autism.
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