Many people seem to think that if they don’t understand something  or don’t think it’s for them then that counts as a belief. …Heteronormative ways of being are not my thing, but that doesn’t mean I’m against them or don’t believe in them. How can you believe or not believe in a person’s identity?

Emotional regulation

 It would be a heck of a lot easier to control my reactivity if people didn’t keep telling me that what I was feeling was somehow wrong or too much.