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Was going to say something personally meaningful here but I don't think anyone's listening. It's also the reason I don't see a therapist, or trust doctors or cops in general. Most of the time I think my words float into the void unheard, or totally misunderstood, which is worse and lead to conflicts that never should have existed.
It's the misunderstandings that prevent me from even approaching therapists, doctors, or cops. Initial impressions that are so biased that they prevent one from seeing a person, perhaps in a "reasonable" course of reactions to the lingering uncertainties about them, create subsequent harm for them individually, subsequent trauma, further alienation from systems supposedly designed to help.
I respect that my misgivings make all of my judgments go both ways, but I know from experience that I'm an OK person that means no harm or unearned contempt towards anyone.
If they have a problem with being able to ascertain/measure/determine that about me then I reflectively have the same problem with every single other person on the planet singe I was 6 years old.
Whatever the established ways of things have been able to try to measure my worth by, I've been terrified since an early age about what they'd do to me if I was judged inadequate.
Maybe that was personally meaningful.