• manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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      20 hours ago

      With a therapist, sure, but don’t bust in to a public space with problematic harmful shit and expect a pat on the head, a pat on the back as I show you the door maybe lol

    • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
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      22 hours ago

      Thats not a lived experience they are pointing at though. Its a a fear based on the focus on youthful beauty instead of seeing the beauty in every age.

      Society does this to us and enforces it at every turn.

      It wants you to think there is no path to loving how you look past youth and thats just not true.

      Most trans people transition as adults because we wont let kids be their true selves.

      Yes trans folks first puberty was wrong but its not unworkable at 20, 30,40, or even 80.

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      I don’t think that’s the point OP is making, but rather using one’s lived experience as a basis for which to judge others’ lived experiences.

      For some, 21 may feel ancient, but for others, their current >21 age is just right. No need to say things in a way that makes the latter feel like they missed the boat on happiness.

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        On one hand, its an expression of how long the poster struggled with finding themselves, on the other a 45 year old egg could read that and start taping the cracks in their egg back together cause now it feels way too late for them.