"I want to be let alone"

[discipuladc]

I'm home safe

Comments

[marveen]

I think I'll post about that in my own journal, rather than break it up into comments. Thanks for the link.

[discipuladc]

Yeah, for me it isn't about "I think everyone that walks by has ill intent" and certainly not a sexist "I fear all men but no women" but a "please respect that I don't want to be bothered

[marveen]

All of which is perfectly true and justified.

I doubt you spend all day every day cringing because it might happen, though. (Which is the main problem I had with her whole post.)

[discipuladc]

I used to, but then I got therapy and anti-anxiety meds. Seriously though, hyper vigilance is a PTSD symptom, not a normal precaution. There is such a thing as being alert to one's surroundings, but most city girls, even those of us with PTSD and social anxiety, know how to be safe without being agoraphobics.

[tuath13]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant. She really strikes a chord with the examination of "behaviour which makes strangers wary of you".

Ganking for repost. mm'kay?

[rainingdays]

I never really thought of it as a female survival instinct to assume danger from other people. It makes a lot of sense.