i'm not here to set up expectations. i don't claim to be a good person. i don't claim to be consistently bad. or consistently one thing or the other of any kind. but no matter how many times i discard my self i wake up the next morning and there it is, so if you perceive me that way then i can't blame you. my mother tried to warn me about people like me and that's why i had no friends back then. i'm not scared of anything about myself. hurt me and i'll cling to you. the backlash shrapnel will hurt you too.

People with a strange identity— especially when it’s strange— have generally thought through the fact that it’s strange, and how it works for them anyway. If you go up to them and say something obvious about how you think it doesn’t make sense, they’re not going to go “oh gee, I never thought about that! I guess you’re right!” They’re going to say “That’s not actually how this works,” and “What you said isn’t relevant to what I mean by it.”