First of all, thank you for taking the time to type this reponse. It’s interesting to hear other people’s perspectives.
I heard somewhere that a lot of artists and creative people are people who have experienced abuse in their childhood/youth.
I’m not really sure, though, in which direction the arrow of causality goes. I guess it’s more like: Creative people are more sensitive --> experience “normal” things more like abuse --> report later in life they were abused in their childhood.
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I guess that’s how it was for me.
Also, even if gay-ness was a symptom of a sickness, forbidding gay-ness would definitely not help. Rather, I think of it as “my body wants to cure me and gayness is the cure, not the disease. It is an unusual method to make me feel better and maybe process sexual experience and get into social connections. It’s definitely not something that will make things worse.” That’s my idea, at least.
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First of all, thank you for taking the time to type this reponse. It’s interesting to hear other people’s perspectives.
I heard somewhere that a lot of artists and creative people are people who have experienced abuse in their childhood/youth.
I’m not really sure, though, in which direction the arrow of causality goes. I guess it’s more like: Creative people are more sensitive --> experience “normal” things more like abuse --> report later in life they were abused in their childhood.
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I guess that’s how it was for me.
Also, even if gay-ness was a symptom of a sickness, forbidding gay-ness would definitely not help. Rather, I think of it as “my body wants to cure me and gayness is the cure, not the disease. It is an unusual method to make me feel better and maybe process sexual experience and get into social connections. It’s definitely not something that will make things worse.” That’s my idea, at least.
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