its not a stupid question at all.
I have to hide evrything at school, because it is socially unacceptable. People think it is so bad because they don't understand why we do it. The only people who truly understand why we SI is other people who do it as well. I think if SI awareness was raised then we wouldn't have to hide it quite so carefully.
At school we are called Emo kids if there is just the slightest idea that we cut. The only people who don't call us emo kids are those who do or used to cut.
Everyone has harmed themself at some stage in the past, even if it was unintentional, they have done it and to be honest, yes, it is harming ourselves, but it is our conscious decision to do it and our conscious decision to stop. Whilst we can get help for it, being looked on as different because we harm ourselves is a form of discrimination which should be addressed in the descrimination act. I think that just because we are harming ourselves it doesn't mean that we should be classed as different.
Sorry. that's my view, I agree with you, sopranonut.
im not very good at writing that sort of thing so I've probably repeated myself several times. Hope it made sense.
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