Tamara Thompson

For about six years, I was pulled over like five different times.

I was locked up.

They called me the miracle worker in there and the negotiator in the jail system in Seattle for a while.

This attorney that I hired, he always told me to be quiet in the courtroom.

And so I remember I was pulled over the last time I was pulled over back in 2010.

And I literally was like,

oh my gosh, I made a huge mistake.

I'm going to be locked away.

Like they're just going to throw out the key and I'm not going to be able to be let out.

I just knew it.

My gut and my intuition, which I follow very dear now, my inner sense of knowing I'm an empath as well.

And I was like, this is it, Tamara, like smack across the face.

I said, hey, you know, I figured it out myself, but I've also been depressed and I know I need help.

I think it was because of...

Not that it wasn't, it wasn't as accepted as much as it is now.

Back then it was harder.

And so like 20, yeah, 20 plus years.

But what really happened was I didn't feel like I had people to talk to, even though when my mom did find out, she literally was like,

She's like, why couldn't you tell me?

I was like, because I didn't want to be gay.