💙 Salem The Burnout 🖤 on Nostr: I think something people don't understand about MAP's and AAM's is this, It's really ...

I think something people don't understand about MAP's and AAM's is this,

It's really fucking hard.

Almost every MAP I know, if they could change one thing about themselves, would change their attractions.

It's not easy walking into a store and realizing that 99% of the people in that store would feel safer if you were dead or imprisoned. It's hard when elected representatives and government officials who are responsible for ushering protection and change are unified in their ideological opposition to your existence.

And when you factor in that a fair few of us have had our own trauma surrounding the very thing that casts a shadow over our day-to-days, memories of abuse as kids, or horrifying interactions with adults in positions of trust,

I don't know how you choose anything other than empathy. The generic moral panic faction that screams "k//ll all p//dos" is such an alien concept to me..

I've never wished death on anybody, especially over factors they couldn't control.

the tl;dr of this is that choosing kindness is essential, both within this community and abroad. Because a lot of us need it. A lot of us are far greater dangers to ourselves than to kids or adults.

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