Society asks us to consider others and do our part to keep things chugging along with as few disruptions as possible.

Don’t talk with your mouth full of tater tots.

Offer your seat to someone else who could use the rest.

Definitely don’t microwave fish in the break room.

These things are niceties that generally ensure the comfort and care of our fellow humans.

But sometimes, society and systems ask things of us that are not comfortable and require us to bury parts of ourselves in order to maintain the comfort of others.

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