#y'know when you're so used to talking to other queer and disabled leftists that talking to someone else feels like you've met a space alien

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Disabled Lesbians talking about relating to the Beast from Beauty and the Beast stories: Yeah so I guess for various reasons since childhood I've always connected with characters considered to be "monstrous", even before I really knew why. I was always sort of othered by my peers, and that led to some temperamental issues when I was younger because I didn't really know how to express my frustration with the way I felt I was being perceived by the society around me. However, as I've matured I've found that there are plenty of people out there willing to get to know the real me, and while some people will always think of me as being like some unnatural animal others will consider me their knight in shining armour, so for those people I think I owe it to them to try to be that better version of myself, and work to be kind even when others consider me something of a freak.

Able cishet men talking about being the Beast: yeah I get it, everyone hates me because I'm the manliest man so I punch things and break furniture when I have feelings. 😠 They just can't handle a real alpha. 😠 But my girlfriend keeps me tame and I've only hit her twice this month.

#abuse mention #this might seem like an exaggeration but really it's only a slightly paraphrased version of conversations I've actually had #with multiple men online and off #y'know when you're so used to talking to other queer and disabled leftists that talking to someone else feels like you've met a space alien #anyway I was thinking about how when you talk about monster loving #everybody assumes you relate to the human character that loves the monster #nah I'm the monster that wants to be loved #I may not have cool fangs or wings or horns #but I've got trauma and my body doesn't work like a normal one #surely that's enough right?