Flinchiness about embracing a label is understandable, when you know there's likely to be negative consequences from doing so. It can help explain things, even if it didn't necessarily excuse them.
It's also hard, sometimes, to embrace a thing when you've worked so hard to build your compensating systems and think you might be within reach of Mount Normal, or the thought that you have succeeded despite rather than succeeded by embracing.
And it's extra hard when you also add trauma and injuries to the mix.
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Date: 2024-12-08 09:52 pm (UTC)It's also hard, sometimes, to embrace a thing when you've worked so hard to build your compensating systems and think you might be within reach of Mount Normal, or the thought that you have succeeded despite rather than succeeded by embracing.
And it's extra hard when you also add trauma and injuries to the mix.