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Nina S. Nazir's avatar

I love this whole post but especially this paragraph:

"The truth is, I didn’t become this way because I like conflict. I became this way because silence didn’t keep me safe. Because being agreeable never stopped people from crossing my boundaries. Because some of us had to learn how to speak with precision—not to attack, but to survive."

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Fern Lindsay's avatar

I don’t fight unless I’m threatened with actual harm many people have different beliefs to me but they are not a threat in any way not placing any restrictions on me so we live in peace

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Rebecca Rijsdijk's avatar

Systemic harm is what I fight. My body has a hard time getting out of survival mode when it feels constantly anxious. I think I should probably live in a cabin in the woods or something 😉

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Fern Lindsay's avatar

A cabin in the woods we loved that

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