If you are trans, nonbinary, or any sexuality/gender that that user was being bigoted against— take a deep breath.
Sit in yourself and find your center. Search for it in your body, were the feeling of truth and love is strongest. Mine is usually in my chest or throat.
Keep breathing and feeling. Acknowledge how much the post made you feel. The anger, the hurt, the disappointment, the disgust, they are important and should be felt. You have every right to feel them. Let them flow through you and let them go if they are causing you harm. Say them out loud, pray, write them down, paint them out.
If you are scared or feel overwhelmed, I would encourage you to get that out in healthy ways as well. For me that means reaching out to others and being comforted by them. Find something that works for you.
Repeat what you know to be true—that the TERF was wrong, that they are bigoted, that there is a community that loves and accepts you.
There will always be people that love you and will stand with you. Your back is never exposed.
If you want to engage with the TERF, then make sure you are in an emotional place that is healthy. If it is going to hurt or upset you, I’d recommend that you let someone else with more energy/spoons than you handle it.
i am praying to god this post is a joke because no one in the real world acts like this.
“Repeat what you know to be true—that the TERF was wrong, that they are bigoted, that there is a community that loves and accepts you.”
This post actually helped me through a really rough period in my life. Janice had been relentlessly bullying me. Telling me “I am a man, I am not a lesbian” and I was starting to believe her but thankfully I had seen this post earlier that day. I repeated those exact same words for close to 30 minuets and she finally shut up. So thank you @waterwitchesmovingstone you really helped me. If not for you Janice may I have forced me back into the closet.
Omg this can’t be true . I fail to believe there are people on this earth that pathetic .
There are living , breathing human beings who have to go into five-minute self mantra therapy because they say someone post something they don’t agree with online .
There are actual adults who ACTUALLY EXIST in the world who actually , for reals, think this is an emotionally mature response to other people with opinions they don’t like posting on a public platform .
Are you …wow . Just wow .
Just …please …Op I’m begging you , for your own good please grow the fuck up .
Sincerely- a working class , autistic mentally ill lesbian who has probably faced allot more hatred than you ever have and yet doesn’t give herself five minute fucking therapy sessions because people say shit .
This really isn’t healthy , OP .
Go fuck yourself, honestly. I’m not lashing out, I’m not hurting anyone. I’m working through the pain of hearing a slur or people hate that I exist. And how dare you assume you’ve faced more than me? I would never assume I’ve been hurt more than someone else. It is healthy, it’s exactly what every therapist I’ve had told me to do. —an autistic, mentally ill, bisexual, agender person.
Water Witches 