The protester said the rally was peaceful until it suddenly got ugly. Now, as he recovers in the hospital, he's not sure if he'll get his vision back in his right eye.
The worst part wasn’t the experience itself. Hell — I’ve had trips that felt scarier.
The worst part is people questioning that it ever happened and straight up ignoring it.
So you’ve helped me more to deal with that particular trauma than my mom, who went “well I couldn’t know what happened there” as in implying “perhaps you did something to deserve it”, actually causing most of the related trauma.
The worst part wasn’t the experience itself. Hell — I’ve had trips that felt scarier.
The worst part is people questioning that it ever happened and straight up ignoring it.
So you’ve helped me more to deal with that particular trauma than my mom, who went “well I couldn’t know what happened there” as in implying “perhaps you did something to deserve it”, actually causing most of the related trauma.
So yeah. Thank you.