Empathy reaction, no place for it often, or rather, it's really uncomfortable. But it is not necessarily a negative reaction.
For me a bigger challenge was learning to not immediately dismiss alcoholics - spiritual deformaties, you might say. Working where I do, at a community centre in the downtown eastside of Vancouver BC, there are many recovering alcoholics, as well as addicts. Some are quite functional, these spiritually deformed, as it were. I'm being mostly serious here.
At any rate, my visceral response to physical deformity is honestly far less than my visceral response to what I have here called spiritual deformity, or social deformity, if you will...
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Date: 2005-12-17 02:25 am (UTC)For me a bigger challenge was learning to not immediately dismiss alcoholics - spiritual deformaties, you might say. Working where I do, at a community centre in the downtown eastside of Vancouver BC, there are many recovering alcoholics, as well as addicts. Some are quite functional, these spiritually deformed, as it were. I'm being mostly serious here.
At any rate, my visceral response to physical deformity is honestly far less than my visceral response to what I have here called spiritual deformity, or social deformity, if you will...