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What about the shame of being different today? Solidarity with other people who live in your difference, who live in your diversity group, is really important because they will have similar experiences. And rather than you thinking, what's wrong with me? You'll say, oh, David, let me tell you, I had the same experience. Or, I'm older. I came out five years ago. It's normal what's happening for you, right? So rather than pathologizing, you're normalizing. Of course you feel that way. Of course you're scared about that. So now I'm living in a micro culture where people are not looking at me as a sick person. This is helpful. Yeah, yeah, that's a huge thing. If I can't find the community, read books of people who have come out in their way, somehow get close to people who are intimate with that experience. So you can kind of go, oh, this is not because something's wrong with me. This is what happens. Then we go back to inner criticism, because the culture has criticisms. They internalize. So now I have something inside of me. You're a weirdo. You're a pervert. So that person has ideas like that, and they're in their head, but they may not know it because no one may ever said it to them out loud. But the ideas are everywhere. They're breathing that in all the time. So now those viewpoints, like an inner criticism, are living, but they're not aware of it, and they don't defend themselves from it.