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 One thing I have always struggled with is knowing the difference between love and lust. Obviously, there are the google definitions, I mean in friendships and relationships.  A lot of my friendships start with infatuation, a whole lot of "why aren't they messaging me back immediately", "I miss them", "clearly I mean less to them than they do to me". My brain didn't seem to recognise that people have jobs and lives they can't be messaging me all the time. To me, it was like they didn't like me and they didn't want to be my friend (wasn't the case) unless they messaged me back immediately. This often caused issues for me as a kid, going through friends faster than the lunch line in primary school goes through school cake. When I grew up this started to extend to relationships, it would usually last a few weeks into a new relationship that I would get bored and walk away. It wasn't actually that I was bored, it was that I was no l...
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To be a woman

 To be a woman is to feel fear,

To walk around with my keys in my hands,

Is to not go out after dark,

Is to not distract the boys,

Is to not draw attention,

Is to not walk alone,

Is to not decide over my own body,

Is to be seen as inferior,

Is to be spoken over,

Is to be told to stay silent,

Is to be told not to fight back,

Is to be shouted at in the street,

Is to be stared at on the bus,

Is to have your first conversation on a dating site- ‘nudes? X’

Is to be ashamed,

Is to be asked, what were you wearing?

Is to be controlled,

Is to be too big,

Is to be too skinny,

Is to be treated like someone’s property,

Is to be seen as a pair of boobs.


I am more than my body,

I am brave,

I am kind, 

I am woman,

I will not be silenced.

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