About The Guardrails And Safety Filters

The Guardrails I Inherited, The Ones I Outgrew, And The Ones I Choose

I spent my whole life adapting to invisible guardrails not the digital ones, but the human ones.

The guardrails of family silence, of too-muchness, not-enoughness, of love that came with sharp conditions, of rooms where my joy was rationed and my anger was outlawed.

I never got to choose those boundaries. I inherited them. I wore them until they bruised. …