difficulties but to unquestioningly affirm their feelings, because, if we were in their shoes, we’d want our feelings to be affirmed.
And *that* is what makes this issue so tricky for me, because it is soooo easy for me to say to myself, or others to say to me, "It's not so different from people calling you and your disability abnormal or deviant." Again, I've had that fight. But actually...it is different. And while I won't pretend it's easy to swallow...the end of that road is just too risky.
