Grace Alice O'Shea

Like if you look back in human history, not so much, not as quite literally today, but, you know, before you would literally need to belong to a tribe or a clan to survive.

You know, you'd otherwise you'd starve, you'd die of exposure.

Like you had to, we had to group together.

So being rejected was obviously a life or death situation, like in the animal kingdom.

Now it's not quite as visceral, you know, we wouldn't starve to death instantly if we were rejected, but it is that inbuilt fear of others perceiving us negatively and rejecting us.

So really, I think that's what a lot of it revolves around is it's not just I'm weird or I'm abnormal.

It's and what what will that cause?

Like what what would it be the effect of that?

Will people reject me or not want to be around me or see me differently?

Whereas at the end of the day, you know, rejection is kind of part of life, isn't it?

You know, you just get rejected now and then.

Absolutely.

Exactly.

It's natural.

And you see that whether it be something, you know, positive, like someone is into a certain kink and they find that community or someone has a particular issue like vaginismus or endometriosis and then they find their community.

And it's all just, you know, seeing a bit of ourselves in each other and just knowing you're not alone.

It just, that does so much work.

Just knowing we're not alone.

Yeah, yeah, I would say so.

I think like, you know, with social media, you can find, again, people with common issues or interests, but also you can find information.