What a great post, gneiss. I don't think that's having an attitude problem at all. Too bad you can't retitle your thread. I like to call this having a positive attitude:
Originally Posted by
gneiss 
Those little white lies I used to tell my friends that sort of grease the wheels of life and make things easier have just disappeared. I feel like I am being kind of b!tchy, but at the same time for the first time in my life I feel like I'm really being myself and if someone does not like it, that's ok. It's not like I'm begging them to hang out with me. Letting people push me around and talk me into doing things I did not want to do got me a drug addiction.
That's absolutly right. If they don't like it, tough cookies. You need to be true to yourself and to others. I'm learning the same things myself.
I find your post to be inspiring this morning. Thanks a mil.