Society

I am very conflict adverse. So I spent a lot of my life keeping very quiet, and almost a decade being afraid of people. But there was an event back in 2009 that made me realise: if I don’t fight for my own rights, I have no right to expect others to do it.

An essay on suicide prevention popped up on my Facebook feed. The author was spurred to write it due to the loss of her friend. At 19, they shouldn’t have to feel such loss:

“In the last visible post, you wrote that it was “not that (our) love isn’t…

On the surface, this world is practically inhabitable for someone like me. I feel too much, I have no interest in competition or survival. Evolutionary biology should have somewhat cancelled me out somewhere, but it didn’t. I shouldn’t have survived, but I did, repeatedly, despite being chronically…