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I see this and I honestly wonder how I’m alive today.
I tried to die by suicide on more than one occasion in that culture.
I drank everyday from 18-23
I had a season ending injury every year from 15 until I stopped playing in my late 20s. Cont https://twitter.com/failsonmcdonald/status/1336493167063908353
I tried to die by suicide on more than one occasion in that culture.
I drank everyday from 18-23
I had a season ending injury every year from 15 until I stopped playing in my late 20s. Cont https://twitter.com/failsonmcdonald/status/1336493167063908353
I attribute many of those injuries to drinking, not sleeping, depression and suicide attempts
I hated the locker room, I hated bus trips, I hated the culture The only place I felt safe was in a game. Nothing made me happier. Cont
I hated the locker room, I hated bus trips, I hated the culture The only place I felt safe was in a game. Nothing made me happier. Cont
The catch 22 being that everything around the game made me feel worse and hate myself yet nothing made me happier than being on the ice.
The crazy part is I have offered to work with the league and humanize being gay in those settings because I truly believe if we can humanize and educate they will shift. I was doing it and it was having impact but...cont
The league wouldn’t mandate it league wide like their other programs sadly. So I stopped doing it. I’d teams call, the progressive ones still do, I work with them but I’m exhausted from banging down doors for groups who don’t want to change their ways.
So to the initial tweet I quote tweeted, you’re right we won’t see gay players. They get harassed, bullied and abused at such a young age that they quit. It’s quite sad and there’s some stuff coming out that will help but these damn gatekeepers need to get out of the way
