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You read a message twice, then a third time, and somehow it sounds colder every time. You replay a conversation on the drive home, certain you said something wrong. Someone's tone shifts - just slightly - and your body reacts before your mind can catch up. Your chest tightens. Your thoughts race. You brace for rejection that hasn't actually happened. Fear arrives before facts. Rejection doesn't just hurt you - it lands. It lingers. It lives in your body. Even small moments of criticism, distance, or misunderstanding can feel overwhelming, as if your nervous system is constantly scanning for danger. And by the time you reach adulthood, you've internalised thousands of quiet messages about being ""too sensitive,"" ""too much,"" or somehow defective for feeling the way you do. Thousands. In Why Does Everybody Hate Me?, Joshua Marlins explores life through the lens of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) - the intense emotional response to perceived rejection experienced by many people with ADHD and heightened nervous systems. Drawing from lived experience, this book traces how fear, shame, people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, and fragile achievement aren't personality flaws, but survival strategies formed in response to chronic emotional threat. With raw honesty and grounded reflection, Joshua examines how RSD shapes childhood, relationships, work, attachment, and identity - from growing up under constant correction, to losing yourself to stay accepted, to learning how to build boundaries without guilt and choose presence over protection. This isn't a story of sudden healing or tidy answers. It's a reckoning with how the nervous system learns to survive - and how it can slowly learn to stand down. You are not broken. You were not imagining it. And your sensitivity was never a defect - it was information. This book is for anyone who feels deeply, doubts constantly, and is learning - carefully - how to trust reality over fear.

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