• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It’s ok to relate to characters that have hurt people. Sometimes good people have histories where they weren’t so good (not saying you weren’t good, I don’t know you outside of recognizing the username, though that said I also haven’t consumed either piece of media in the meme). This is growth. Sometimes it’s the characters I don’t like that I relate to that are the most valuable for me, because they show me a direction I should be improving in.

    A lot of people in prolonged bad mental states such as dysphoria, trauma, or mental illness have a history of unintentionally hurting people. It doesn’t mean they don’t deserve happiness, it just means they need to learn to take care of themselves and how to stop unintentionally hurting people.