thebibliosphere:

Friendly reminder, you don’t owe anyone your survivor status for them to treat you with civility and respect. That’s on them.

You do not need to relive your trauma for others to validate you. You do not need their validation or approval to exist.

And no, I don’t have to advocate and talk about it in a public forum if I don’t want to. That’s my choice, and you don’t get to take that from me.