You’re too much. Too loud. Too emotional. Too disruptive. Too… (fill in the blank).
It’s all been said to me at one point or another; sometimes gently, sometimes as a knife, sometimes as a joke. By friends, by family, by teachers and lovers, by colleagues. Those words; echoes of a society that fears what it cannot easily digest, took up space in my mind …
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