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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for sharing. I'm trying to be very careful in how I word all of this, because I've never been through what the two of you have, and I know I can never truly understand, but I am sympathetic to the severity of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Misread the commentor initially. Absolutely. Sympathy and empathy is how we build a better world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Absolutely! I think that the sympathy and care that you expressed are very helpful and really want to commend you on reaching out with a supportive hand rather than matched aggression. I find that a lot of people who respond with displays of aggression are doing so because of their own internalized wounds forcing their way our in anger, rather than intentional malice (some people are just assholes, to be fair).

Keep rocking, you beautiful human being.

ETA: Other comment was deleted because I mistook who I was replying to because ADHD.