loneliness

Born To Die In Isolation

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I didn’t know my family was abusive until I was well into my teens. When you don’t know something is abnormal, you can’t develop defenses against it. You just absorb it as the way things are. How relationships work and what family means. You build your whole understanding of human connection on a foundation of … Read more

How To Be A Human and Integrate Yourself With Your Fellow Earthlings

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I was nine years old and sitting at a lunch table in the school cafeteria having some meaningless kid conversation with another kid when they abruptly asked me a question that would lodge itself in my brain for years. “Why are you so strange?” he said. Not with cruelty or mockery, but genuine confusion. Like … Read more