Posted by Dinah on May 11, 2009, at 10:08:47
In reply to Re: Bullying and subsequent psychosis » Dinah, posted by SLS on May 11, 2009, at 6:14:03
Quite true.
That's why I'm so ambivalent about the phrase "only human". I use it myself sometimes, but I also generally rebel a bit about it. We're not "only human", we're *human*. We have the primitive urges of animals, but we also are blessed with the ability to make different choices, and ones that have their own evolutionary advantages.
My mother showed me, and anyone who cared to look, that kids don't necessarily have to be kids. I think about that little girl often, and hope that the difference my mother made in how she was treated lasted for longer than that year. Sometimes I even dare to hope that I helped in some way.
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