RE: [ET2] Living Creatively At The Genius Level? (was Teacher Trauma)

Thank you, Silvia.
Frankly, I resent the implication that anyone here is engaging in some kind
of suffering contest.
So you managed to see your abuse as a situation which had some positive
results. Well bully for you. Really that's great. But the same doen't go for
all of us.
For Christ's sake, no my abuse from my cousin has not imroved my ability to
have functional relationships, taught me about the joy and beauty of sex or
anything else. It hurt and it still hurts and that's it. And I'm so sorry if
my lack of joyous bloody acceptance about the whole thing offends anyone.
Great if you can learn from this but don't even try to imply that the rest
of us are inadequate because we can't/don't/won't.
Perhaps some of us could be a little more sensitive in dealing with this
kind of topic.

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>Reply-To: emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: <emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [ET2] Living Creatively At The Genius Level? (was Teacher
>Trauma)
>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:58:58 +0100
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> > On one hand (damage email) you ask for the suffering
> > competition to stop
> > and on the other hand (you have five more fingers) you
> > encourage the
> > competition and ask others to share publicly their suffering.
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>I'm sorry I don't see how encouraging people to feel free to talk
>about their experiences if they want to is encouraging a
>competition.
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>Indeed, the very reason I wrote the "damage" mail was to make it
>clear that if someone wants to discuss something, it *doesn't*
>have to be major trauma, it could be anything that they found
>interesting, or that they are still stuck with, wondering about.
>
>It is actually one of the sad things that people discount their
>own experiences of suffering on the grounds that they shouldn't
>have felt like that. After all, it was ONLY <...> and NOT <war,
>rape, trauma>. If it had been, then perhaps I might have had a
>right to feel like this but as it is, I don't.
>
>Not useful.
>
>SF
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Received on Wed May 28 2003 - 04:10:09 BST