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It makese sad to see people who share their experiences with trauma, drug use, sex work, and various other things, feel like they have to be a one-note song focused entirely on these issues.
Whenever we share our greater humanity we're repudiated for deviating from script.
Whenever we share our greater humanity we're repudiated for deviating from script.
The truth is that even though we have walked an uncommon path that many people don't understand doesn't mean we aren't also whole people like everyone else.
We have hobbies, emotions, hopes, fears and all the things that make us human, just like "ordinary people".
We have hobbies, emotions, hopes, fears and all the things that make us human, just like "ordinary people".
Nobody can be "on" all the time. Being forced to relive your own trauma every day in the interest of educating the uninitiated is exhausting and painful.
Sometimes you need to forget you're somehow different or extreme. Sometimes you just need to be.
Like everyone else.
Sometimes you need to forget you're somehow different or extreme. Sometimes you just need to be.
Like everyone else.
Yes I'm a drug user, a convict and a survivor of intense trauma.
I also play strategy games, watch martial arts movies and play with my cat. I like to cook. I like to watch cartoons with my partner while smoking weed and eating cheesecake.
I'm not at all unlike you.
I also play strategy games, watch martial arts movies and play with my cat. I like to cook. I like to watch cartoons with my partner while smoking weed and eating cheesecake.
I'm not at all unlike you.
