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I read somewhere that negative events and words have 20 times the impact on our brain/emotions than positive events.
So when shit happens to me I tell myself the people that did it are not that important. It's hard and horrible tho.
Big big hugs.
I have no idea if they were terfs. I suspect that the intolerance was in part ethnicity based.
There’s some truth in that. I’ve never forgotten certain things that has happened when I was bullied as a kid and it still stings and weighs me down.
Positive events related to that subject haven’t stuck with me at all.