and it doesn't strike anyone has having been more helpful both to that person and to the community as a whole to have pointed out that distinction to them?
*shrug* I'm possibly taking this too personally. I don't think it's -about me-, but it does strike a nerve in regards to my own experiences, and I've some amount of sympathy, even if few others do. Dunno about those people, I can sympathise with being frustrated with knowing what I'd need in a relationship, being open about that, and not only frustrated about not being able to find it, but being ridiculed for it in a community I felt part of, and I'd have thought would be more open to relationship styles that are less mainstream. Hell, I'd thought it was suppose to be a mark of maturity to know what you want and be honest with others about that, but it seems to be something which makes you an open target for pointing and laughing.
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Date: 2005-01-29 06:03 pm (UTC)*shrug* I'm possibly taking this too personally. I don't think it's -about me-, but it does strike a nerve in regards to my own experiences, and I've some amount of sympathy, even if few others do. Dunno about those people, I can sympathise with being frustrated with knowing what I'd need in a relationship, being open about that, and not only frustrated about not being able to find it, but being ridiculed for it in a community I felt part of, and I'd have thought would be more open to relationship styles that are less mainstream. Hell, I'd thought it was suppose to be a mark of maturity to know what you want and be honest with others about that, but it seems to be something which makes you an open target for pointing and laughing.