The Risks of Vulnerability

I’m committed to the stories I post but sometimes it is hard

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Someone clearly unfamiliar with my work decided it was appropriate to talk down to me and give me advice on an article of mine recently. It was a vulnerable piece, and one that I don’t regret writing but wanted to take down because of this person’s response.

In the end I did keep the piece up, because I think it’s important and that I need to keep up anything already posted unless there is a good reason not to, but being attacked by a know it all is one thing I don’t deal with very well at all. That’s a me issue and I have to learn how to deal with these types more graciously.

This particular one assumed that I didn’t know anything about trauma or how certain things worked, which was highly insulting. I’m attempting to produce a mostly professional volume of work, I’m not asking for advice about random topics.

Of course this is a risk one takes when publishing vulnerable articles, but it still hurts to have people purposely take my work out of context and speak without knowledge of anything else I’ve written, and pretend to be giving advice when what they are really doing is talking down to me.

Some people think they know everything and are unable to comprehend the fact that other people know…