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It's amazing how much rejection and judgement hurts

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I don't know why I let it bother me. I should be able to rise about it.

Right now there are people who are in prison who may never be released, who spend 23 hours a day locked in a cell. Surely that is hopelessness?

Or the people detained in mental hospitals who are Autistic and live in fear of being assaulted by the staff.

Then you could be a mouse, imagine the terror you would feel at being eaten by a bird of prey, for you are only small and they can fly high above and swoop down on you.

This seems to me how it works. Have you noticed? NTs exclude us and are very calm-headed about that. They're like, oh yeah, they deserve it, they won't follow the rules. Then when we adapt and create our alternative lifestyles, the NTs complain that we're excluding them. So let's say an Autistic person goes walking in the countryside in flamboyant clothes, as I do - the birdwatchers and cyclists get annoyed with me.

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  • Something I learnt from a therapist on the radio once, who in her personal life had gone through shocking war and genocide trauma, was that there is 'no heirarchy to pain'.

    This has helped me engage in my pain and acknowledge it, rather than dismiss it cos it's less bad than others. Acknowledging and feeling and grieving my own pain for myself doesn't take away from others (unless it becomes a self indulgent wallowing). We can have care and concern for ourselves AND others.

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  • Something I learnt from a therapist on the radio once, who in her personal life had gone through shocking war and genocide trauma, was that there is 'no heirarchy to pain'.

    This has helped me engage in my pain and acknowledge it, rather than dismiss it cos it's less bad than others. Acknowledging and feeling and grieving my own pain for myself doesn't take away from others (unless it becomes a self indulgent wallowing). We can have care and concern for ourselves AND others.

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