as small as a world and as large as alone

4:29am September 1, 2014

soilrockslove:

dendriforming:

I don’t want anybody to ~protect~ me without asking first!

Maybe that meme means something else, but if so, I’m very unclear what. And I’ve had enough undesired protection for a lifetime.

Yeah, that’s why I don’t re-blog those “Protect all (inset kind of people here) at any cost!” posts.  Because I’ve known what “protection at any cost” means.  And some costs are too great and sometimes it’s better *not* to protect.

Not when the cost is freedom.  Not when the cost is never being alone, always “watched over”.  Not when the cost being “protected” from finding out what you’re limits actually *are* even when you say you want to.  Not when the cost of protection is growth.

And the people in these posts are usually the kind of people who already *know* that kind of condescending protection too well.  Even if they are also the people who need way more care and love from society at large than they’ve been getting.

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