Well, well, well

[chervilant]

2. I am working on an article

regarding our species' relative inability to deal with outliers--of all ilk. Your essay is a timely find.

For example, we are not taught how to interact with individuals who have mental disorders. We are even taught to view mental disorders as aberrations, rather than as the coping strategies they are for those of us who must contend with a different brain chemistry, or PTSD, or any number of stressors that compel us to learn something -- anything -- that helps us to maintain or survive.

I think the same holds true for anger--the "bad" emotion. Early in my work as an advocate, I learned an excellent strategy for determining how one expresses anger, and why. Most of us fail to understand from whom, and how, we learn to express anger. Interactions on the micro level could be our primary opportunities to learn to express anger in healthy ways. We might also learn tolerance, acceptance, conflict resolution, and compromise.

We have to have each others' backs. We cannot continue to indulge in "us vs them."