Expecting people to teach you about issues they face at the drop of a dime isn’t just rude, but it’s incredibly insensitive. We’re constantly having to deal with these issues, we’re on the verge of breakdowns, outbursts, full of pain or rage or both and expecting us to have to force ourselves to relive these experiences at your demand is just….wrong.

We are not text books. You’ve heard it before, but has the meaning really sunk in? Text books are objects containing the story of someone’s story and emotions. We are people. We lived the stories, we are the emotions. And these things hurt us to relive.