I tend to be very outspoken about self harm, I used to be incredibly ashamed of it and for years I refused to talk about it but once I got older it became easier to talk about and I am very passionate in helping people understand more about self harm.
I personally dislike being stereotyped but I tend to think anyone who says your emo just because you self harm, is an imbecile but like so many things these days people are a bit ignorant about the issue of self harm because they don't understand it or have only heard some untrue things on tv about it, so I can't really hate on someone just because they don't understand.
If someone makes a comment like that about it than I do try to calmly explain it to them but most people (especially teens) tend to ignore me or just don't care but occasionally their are some people willing to try and understand.
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