people underestimate the effect of microaggressions and the way they alter your behavior, and the way you view life and other people.
all marginalized people operate as survivors of trauma, basically, coz we all have to learn to maneuver constant covert and overt abuse in our daily lives. we are all affected. not just victims of more heinous, outwardly horrific shit.
being followed around stores, underestimated, pathologized, invalidated, villified, treated as pariahs, racist, sexist, classist, ableist, cissexist, transphobic, homophobic snark….all alter how we think and feel too.
and so, we are never overreacting. its the world that generally underreacts to our oppression.
if anything, as a survival mechanism, we all learn to underreact and swallow it all too.