You were made on purpose, which means your quirks aren’t factory defects.

The things you have been quietly apologising for are mostly just features. Being too intense, too slow to speak, too interested in something nobody else cares about: those get called problems by whoever finds them inconvenient. A defect is a departure from a design. Whatever you believe about who did the designing, the parts that feel odd are not errors to be filed down.

List three things about yourself you would change if a button existed. Then ask who told you those were faults, and whether they were right. Try leaving one of them alone this week instead of managing it.