I don’t think it will ever change, truly. *sideways smile* After all, what is free will for? So long as they don’t try to blinker me and mine, they can honestly think what they like. It’s their loss. Sad, but true.
“Indeed,” she said with a nod. “As long as they are not infringing on the freedom of others, they have the right to be as narrow minded as they please, though when that boundary is crossed, it can be rather harmful.”
You don’t have to tell me. I was drugged for a while because people thought my empathy was a sickness in me.
Her brows shot up in surprise, ”Oh my, that’s terrible!”
*shrugs* Well, by their lights, they were trying to do a good thing. This was while I was still trying to get a handle on shielding, you understand, and there are human illnesses that look much the same as what I was displaying. So it could have been worse, really. But … to me, it was like being wrapped in cotton. I felt — suffocated.