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Originally Posted by Isadora
I don't always need to be understood by anyone but me and I want to be accepted as who I am as a individual human being. I don't always want to be healed, I want to be heard. I don't always want to have to define myself, I just want to be seen. I don't always want to explain my choices, I just want them accepted as fully mine. I fight to keep my Shirley Valentine alive.
I am a a bell curve not a duality. My self is fluid. I hope it is always that way.
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Isadora, your whole post was beautiful, but this part, I especially loved and related to. Thank you so much for posting it here.
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. - Dorothy Allison