one of these is easy to understand | recovery network: Toronto

One of these is easy to understand.

The other is a delusion, a trick of the mind .

One of these is easy to understand

The other is too often a tool of oppression, used to other and dehumanise people: most of whom are already having a tough enough time.

One of these helps you understand something of what I experience.

The other is designed to help a small number of people demonstrate they know a lot when they talk to each other about people like me. 

Yet really it shows just how little they understand.

One of these is the language of an everyday normal human experience

that has been celebrated through human history and is still revered in many cultures.

The other presupposes the only explanation is that there is something wrong. 

One of these is something many of us experience every day,

– that most of us will experience at least once in our lives- and most of those who do  regard it as helpful and meaningful. They just don’t talk about it because they’re afraid of what you’ll think and do.

The other is so complicated you likely wouldn’t recognise it if you did experience it.

One of these is easier for you to share in my experience of being alive.

The other is designed to keep you separate from me.

We do get to choose the words that we use.

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