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To lovely humans who were excluded from invitations, left behind when they tied their shoes, forced to walk in the grass when the sidewalk was full, spoken over when you tried to contribute, whispered about or laughed at, given side-eye when you tried to fit in.... you are so worthy of love.

Do you ever feel like you're just sort of there?

Like all your friends go out and do things and get into relationships and like people that like them back and have fun and do stupid things with their best friends and instead of doing all that you're just sort of this mildly entertaining thing that people take an interest in once in a while but they wouldn't really care if it was gone.

Like you just sort of exist but you don't really mean anything.

My biggest red flag?

I disappear.

Not in the obvious ways, but in the subtle ones, texts left unread, calls ignored like they never rang.

I cancel plans without an excuse, fade into the background of group chats and missed events.

I laugh less, talk even less than that. It's easier to ghost than explain how heavy my chest feels.

I leave messages half-typed, delete them before I hit send, telling myself they don't care anyway.

I let the days blur together, sleep in too late, or not at all, I pretend I'm fine until I believe it.

Until I'm too deep to find my way back.

What version of myself have I killed?

I killed the version that screamed, the one that begged to be seen— the good child, always right, never too loud, never too bright.

But the rage, it built a home in my chest, breathing fire where love should rest.

Now I'm calm, quiet, but there' s a grave inside me where love and rage both sleep, and no one sees the price I keep.

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