| Was I out of line?
I'm a recovering self-injurer, and I'm pretty open about that fact when I talk to people I know. I was in class today (I go to a local university), and the professor asked the class to give examples of what would be considered abnormal, or "crazy" behavior in our society. There were the traditional answers, but then one man raised his hand and said "cutting yourself, or hurting yourself. you gotta be totally crazy to do that". I couldn't believe he had said that, and then several class members piped up their agreement. I sat there for a minute, and then raised my hand and said that I was a self-injurer, and that it stemmed from some intense emotional issues surrounding family members, my past, and a brother who is a drug addict. I asked him if he thought that I was crazy. The backpeddling was so fierce that I thought he was gonna have a stroke! I then told him that people who hurt themselves are usually not crazy, just wounded. I was told that they never would have known that I was a self-injurer because I don't have "the look". Sure I dress like a Gap ad, but that doesn't mean anything. My question is, was I out of line? Should I have left it up to the psychology professor to set him straight?
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