Either people care too much about your pain and you have to endure false pity while they tell you you’re strong, a warrior, and handling things with grace, unconsciously heaping pressure to maintain composure to meet their expectations, or they think you have a low tolerance and need you to quiet your drama queen tendencies. Either reaction gets old real fast, and both recenter and detract from the validity of my own pain. Sometimes I want the freedom to be and not be strong or a warrior, and I sure as hell don’t want to be graceful.
