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Acting in anger is the best way to feel dirty after an action. Less so if someone provokes you into anger, but still there's a lingering feeling of "Could I have handled that better?"

The only time anger is really useful is when it's passive as an undercurrent, when it's redirected, or as motivation for a better goal. When it's burning white hot it's rarely beneficial for anything past short term.

I have almost been arrested for assault due to my own anger, and only evaded it because I left the scene, so yeah.

Other people's anger to me regularly made me feel sad, traumatized and powerless.

Mine own anger resulted in me using what could be classified as hate speech against someone I cared about once.

My anger is usually aimed at myself. Depression sucks.

oh, feel better Six. I usually just read in here, but I want you to know... something

OH MY GOD

IT'S AN OUTSIDER

HOLY SHIT

-BRANDISHES TEDDY BEAR AT OUTSIDER-

Don't scare them away Hopey.

—offers a piece of cake for consolation—

edited 19th Apr '15 11:51:16 AM by phantom1

Okay, mum.

-eats a cake-

Hello.

I havent posted in here as much recently because i dont have many LGBT things to discuss....

i mean i just noticed recently that my residence also has a number for a "gay, lesbian, and bisexual helpline" i guess us Transpeeps are out then

i mean my college was pretty bad on that respect too but eh.

Also everyone seems to assume that because im trans i'll want to read every sensationalist tabloid article about sex changes.

le sigh

Yeah, I really haven't come out to the other members of my family because of paranoia and pragmatism.

I'm probably never going to. >.<

I mean I want to. I just don't know what their reaction is going to be and that terrifies me.

well take it from me knowing their reaction isnt any less terrifying

Maybe I should just go if I'm going to spend my life in the box and not express myself like everyone else is comfortable doing. >.<

-hugs dbl tight-

Yes, the majority of us are comfortable, but that doesn't mean we alwayshave been or that we are 24/7. I spent quite some time refusing to admit I was trans, even to myself.

Theres nothing wrong with being closeted or uncomfortable. If you're in a situation where you might be hurt for coming out, or in any situation where coming out is dangerous, your safety comes first. Coming out can wait, if you make that choice at all. Theres nothing wrong with not doing so.

And yet it still feels like I'm being childish because I don't know if any of that will happen if I do.

As Smokey-Chan said: Better safe than sorry.

Correct.

I concur with this assessment, as a straight, white male of colour.

Sorry. >.<

Nothing to be sorry about =)

Just wish I didn't feel so upset about it all the time. >.<

"I concur with this assessment, as a straight, white male of colour. "

white male of colour

I mean... that's technically a think that can happen.

Like, I'm ethnically half-Roma, but I look like the whitest white person ever.

If Hopey passes for white, then my Swabian dialect passes for High German .

Oh, it's definitely a thing that doesn't apply to Hopey, and of course he's being facetious, but it's not actually as ridiculous as it sounds, is my point.