A Guide To Empathy
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This is a bit of an advice-giving piece as well as a personal one. The entire centre part focuses on memories that some of our system's trauma holders have (particularly Nico(5), Tyler(17), and Alejandro(4) have) as an example of basically what we're able to hide/bury from people, and thus why it's so important to be kind.
Trigger Warnings: Mentions of self-harm (c*tting), past ab*se, intrusive (su*cidal) thoughts, child bullying & negative self-talk
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