My personal experience with trauma is that you go through waves. Like first, you feel on top of the world, right, because you're conquering a demon who is big and bad, and you're doing it publicly. So everyone looks up to you. But then suddenly you start to fall apart. Inevitably. Because tackling that one big thing does not automatically mean that you have tackled all the other things that you really need to handle.

Being a hero in one area but needing to work on multiple other things is a difficult thing that no one really prepares you for.

One thing I really want to caution: hurt people don't hurt people. All people hurt people.

We're all of us hurt, you know? All of us.

It kinda sucks to treat visibly traumatized people like we're in a different, more dangerous category.

Cuz a lot of people get really good at hiding their wounds in socially acceptable ways, and in my experience, they're the most dangerous of all.

I figure that's how this whole whiteness thing got started in the first place.