“Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found everyone, myself as well.”
half of my problem is just not thinking of ‘extreme’ in the same way that most people think of it; once i start understanding or getting into something it no longer seems extreme or taboo to me, and then i have to remind myself that some things are actually not normally thought of by most. this goes for things like sex and suicide but also smaller-scale things too like i just normalize every real/mental experience i have and create a new baseline, and none of it registers as 'off’ or different until i’m reminded that people live very different lives than i do
