I wasn't born this way. [There's a flicker of something, but she shuts her eyes to it before opening them once again.]
Not that it matters, anymore, but what we have aren't quite illnesses, not like those. [She's thought of her compulsions as a parasite, and still does from time to time, but she's been coming a bit more to terms with it.]
Unless you intend to cure what it means to be a person. Nobody's perfect, nobody should be perfect, everyone has bad qualities to them, what matters is what we do to recognise, hold ourselves accountable to, and manage them.
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Not that it matters, anymore, but what we have aren't quite illnesses, not like those. [She's thought of her compulsions as a parasite, and still does from time to time, but she's been coming a bit more to terms with it.]
Unless you intend to cure what it means to be a person. Nobody's perfect, nobody should be perfect, everyone has bad qualities to them, what matters is what we do to recognise, hold ourselves accountable to, and manage them.