I find I am typically rejected by the people I would consider "friends" -or friendly folk, rather- the stronger I voice my boundaries.

I have learned the quickest rebound retort someone in my closest circles - or rather, my presumably close circles - can accuse me of is that I am "crazy" or "toxic" when these simple boundary requests fall on deaf ears

I am often referred to as a narcissist-
So often, in fact, I have extensively cried to my therapist posing the dreaded question-

"Am I?"

He suspects the opposite-
"narcissist's", he says, "don't question if they have the personality disorder."

I have concluded...