One of the most heartfelt and raw things I have encountered, in my seven-odd years on Hive. Brave.

"The System" is a construct erected by those who were/are wildly uncomfortable with things that don't fit into neat little boxes... and it gradually gets worse because the channel that contains the acceptable becomes narrower and narrower as time passes.

Consider all the mental states once regarded as "within the normal spectrum of human experience" that today are regarded as "syndromes" and medicalised into oblivion.