The person at the center, by virtue of being the most vulnerable, gets to say anything she wants at any time to anyone. That is the sole benefit of being encased in that awful central ring. That person should not be the recipient of complaints from people in the outer periphery. They can say how they feel, how the trauma is affecting them too, but only to people in larger rings. The rule, as described in the article, is simple: “comfort IN and dump OUT.”
