We are all baking in very broken systems, same here as I am on a lifelong journey to interrogate my perspectives and beliefs, but I do think regularly about how to work with this population and in this field and not become desensitized or start to use this kind of argument and language

A lot of software folks sometimes open up to me and say something like, "well I am really extremely sensitive" and then recount something and I'm like, let me not invalidate you, but also...this sounds AWFUL and like something that would absolutely hurt anyone with a heart

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