The keyword “Wootton High School” is currently trending with over 20,000 searches due to a serious incident involving a shooting at the school. Reports indicate that one student was shot inside Thomas S. Wootton High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, prompting significant public concern and heightened media coverage. This violent event has naturally drawn the attention of both local and national audiences, resulting in a spike in search interest.
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Do you see a therapist or have any counseling?
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Yeah, not because you’re not right but because living with this much rage is hard on you. It raises your cortisol levels, not theirs. It raises your blood pressure, not theirs. They deserve it, but you’re the one carrying it. Learning to set it down is the only way to benefit you.
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There is a saying i used to like, may not remember 100% but goes something like “resentment is a poison you take yourself, hoping to hurt someone else”. So yeah maybe MOR, but more importantly op would benefit from learning coping skills that let go of some of the anger. It isn’t a safe way to live.
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*Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies* – Nelson Mandela It’s so true. You hold all this resentment in your body, slowly rotting you whilst your “enemies” live their lives unashamed and unaffected. OP, stress **can** and **will** kill you. Whilst you didn’t get a choice in the way you were born you do have a choice in how you live your life. *Time flies when you’re having fun* but time slowly passes when we are miserable. Please consider seeking out a (support) group with those who were dealt the same cards as you. I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how much **life** you have yet to ***live***. I truly hope you find peace, strength and the love of your life. Be kind to yourself. NOR UpdateMe
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Check their post history. The cooking post of 7 days ago. Sigh.
C
Of course he posts in incel communities. Sigh.
J
Even they were telling him to get therapy, yikes
J
Please listen to this. I held in all my resentment and it led to worse health issues. You never need to talk to your family again, that is valid. You do need to talk to someone. You aren’t in a wheel chair yet, go do stuff. Also, when you are in a chair, go do stuff. For you. Live for you.
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None of us chose the traumas we experienced growing up in our families. We’ve all got troubles we carry with us. The best we can do is try to heal or find ways to cope.
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Exactly. I would never try to convince OP to reconnect with his family, but he’s a young man. NOR, but also not living his best life. Not for anyone else. OP, the recommendations for therapy, human connection, and personal growth are for YOU. You deserve to enjoy the life you have!
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Unfortunately as someone that has undergone severe trauma at the hands of others… this is great advice but it also neglects the unfortunate fact that trauma does irreparable harm to someone even when they’re away from it or healed from it. This is why trauma victims tend to have autoimmune issues and autonomic issues… it’s beyond their control. No matter how much breathing or therapy I do, it will not fix the harm they did. And I feel OP’s pain. It’s a terrible way to live.
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That is what happened to me. Since then I’ve started trying to work through my trauma and me. Im still allowed to be mad at the people that hurt me but im.learninh to love me. Im learning it’s not my fault. It’s too late to reverse my health issues and they will shorten my life. I wish I had started learning to cope at 18 instead of 40. You can’t control what happened to you but you can control how you react to it. You can learn brain tricks to help control thought tracks. If I had done that, I might not be stuck where I am today. I do feel that my therapy has helped so much because I wanted it to help. I’m doing the work.
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This is the best possible response here. Get some help OP.
J
1000%
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And you were most likely the result of their love for each other, I sincerely doubt their thoughts were “gee let’s have a kid that will be handicapped and miserable”. Please get counseling
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Plus it seems like the mom was able to find love and start a family despite the disability
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Op doesn’t mention if the parents were helpful and supportive and aiding them to live their best life. This is info that is vital.
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Previous post from 7 days ago says they’ve seen a therapist AND live alone, but lying to parents by pretending to have a fun life… Edited to add… Sigh.
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Oh, I’m also curious are you no contact with your brother and sister as well? I wonder that sense your siblings didn’t birth you, if you are also angry with them and punishing them, because they aren’t disabled.
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YOR, but for yourself. It’s OK to have resentment, it’s OK to want to be alone. But it seems like you are isolating yourself and have decided there is no hope at all for your futur, and that’s bad… for you. Please go to therapy. For yourself. Anger, sadness and bitterness are not bad emotions, except if you let them consume you and dictate your life. Take care of yourself, and go to therapy (or change therapist if you are already seeing one and that don’t make you feel better)
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Yeap, I was thinking the same. Like, dude already does not have friends nor partners, even if he’s angry (which he has all the right to be), he’s shooting himself in the foot with these actions.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s back here when he’s 40 and needs support wondering if he’s overreacting for expecting the family he’s been no contact with for decades to be his free caregivers since it’s their fault
A
OP may benefit by preemptively joining some groups of wheelchair bound people. They may likely be able to relate and help him transition and he may feel optimistic when seeing their lives.
J
MOR – coming from someone with a genetic muscle disease that has caused me a great deal of emotional and physical pain. my brother didn’t get it but i did, yeah it sucks tbh but i’m glad i got it and not him. i think you need help from a mental health professional who specializes in chronic illness… you seem to be holding a lot of anger and resentment and that isn’t good for you.
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Idk man, I also have a genetic disorder and am no contact with my rents, but not because of that. Being disabled does not mean you cannot have a meaningful, enjoyable life. I think this might be more about internalised ableism than it is about your parent’s choice to reproduce.
M
I am just guessing, but maybe his parents didn’t get him the support he needed for his disability – especially the emotional support.
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He said they got him therapy but quit it cuz he didn’t want his parents to waste money on him is what he said. They tried to help OP he chose to not get help.
J
Yes, therapy only works if you cooperate.
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Oh yeah well besides the very very obvious. His resentment has also clearly soured to self hatred and ablism.
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Happy 10-year cake day mintinthebox
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Idk I don’t think it is for you to say. Not all disabilities are the same and OPs seems very physically limiting, they are probably in a lot of pain. Chronic pain is underestimated and does a huge number on people’s mental health.
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Having a physical disability in a place that does not cater to disabilities is also way more restricting than people want to think about.
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Almost no one in the thread deals with chronic pain and it shows. Its eats away at you and kills the person you were before the disease took everything.
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Bold assumption to make that “almost no one in the thread deals with chronic pain”. Those of us with chronic pain can be IN PAIN and also be capable of NOT BEING ASSHOLES to other people.
M
Also, OP doesn’t deal with chronic pain. He said in a comment what his condition is. It’s a degenerative motor condition, not specifically painful.
C
I feel you. This is my big problem with the whole social disability model thing. I would be in horrible pain no matter where or when I was born and my life is very hard because of it
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And you made a strange assumption that they are in a lot of pain.
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Imagine thinking someone that needs a cane by 18 and wheelchair before 40 isn’t in chronic pain. lol. Some of you are really dumb.
A
Nah, you can actually fuck off with that shit. Many disabilities don’t cause pain. His issue is mobility.
E
Bro both would be examples of peripheral nervous system malfunctions. How does your interjection help OP?
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My ex was not physically disabled but his father has ocd and addiction issues and his mom is bipolar with other issues. He was never diagnosed but would have mood swings and at times he felt broken, he felt to much like his parents. He resented them for that but still tried to have a relationship until his older brother who was also diagnosed with bipolar stopped taking his meds and threw a chair at me. Since then he cut all contact with his family (his parents tried to defend his brother and blamed me) Since then he has been no contact with them, even cut out his grandparents as they kept pushing and trying to set up family dinners with everyone
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Maybe some internalized ideas of eugenics too
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Not all disabilities are the same. Some disabled people experience symptoms that make every minute of their lives painful, for example- hard to have a “meaningful, enjoyable life” like that. Even if someone has a “mild” disability by your or another’s standards, the disability may be horrible for them to experience. I’m disabled myself, and I assure you that my 3 suicide attempts had nothing to do with ableism and everything to do with having constant pain and no hope of escape (not suicidal now, thanks modern science!). Anyway, I hope your day goes smoothly and life treats you well 💛
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This person is advocating for eugenics even if they don’t realize it. YOR, OP
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Making a choice to not have a child because they may inherit a severe disability is *not* the same as sterilizing disabled people and ‘selective breeding’ that eugenics calls for.
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YOR. Your parents accepted a known genetic risk that your mother herself lives with. That doesn’t make the outcome fair, but it does mean it wasn’t malicious. Leaving without warning, unloading years of rage, declaring yourself dead, and cutting all contact wasn’t a boundary. It was a punishment designed to hurt back as hard as possible. It gave you momentary control, not resolution. You didn’t gain peace or closure; you chose isolation and froze yourself in resentment. You punished them because you couldn’t punish the disease. You’re justified in being angry and even in needing distance, but the scorched-earth exit was disproportionate and will likely cost you more in the long run than it gives you. The disability took enough from you already, but choosing permanent bitterness and exile is the part that was optional.
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Just to answer specifically to your edit, OP: Your revolver analogy fails because it confuses intentional harm with probabilistic risk. Pulling a trigger at someone’s leg is a direct act meant to cause injury. Having a child with a genetic risk is not an act aimed at harming a specific person. There is no target, no victim chosen, and no guaranteed outcome. A better comparison would be driving a car knowing accidents are possible: if a crash happens, it’s tragic, but it doesn’t mean the driver intended to maim someone by getting behind the wheel. In your analogy, the harm is the goal of the action. In reproduction, harm is a possible outcome, not the purpose. Ethics doesn’t treat those as the same, because intent matters. If we accepted your analogy, then every parent who knows any risk (genetic disease, mental illness, poverty, war, climate, random birth defects) would be morally guilty the moment something goes wrong. That standard makes reproduction itself immoral unless perfection is guaranteed, which is an impossible bar. Suffering makes the analogy feel emotionally satisfying, but it doesn’t make it logically sound. You’re replacing “this hurts” with “someone must be morally equivalent to pulling a trigger,” and that leap doesn’t hold. You can argue the risk shouldn’t have been taken, but comparing it to intentional violence is a false equivalence. I hear and see how strongly this is affecting you, and it makes sense to feel upset. It might really help to talk with a therapist about what you’re going through, if you’re not already connected to one. I wish you the best.
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I hope OP sees this and it sinks in. This couldn’t have been stated more clearly and correctly. I get it, OP. I am 48 and also disabled with genetic stuff – though no one knew about any of that when I was born decades ago (the Ehlers-Danos, the ADHD, the autism, manic depression, etc.) – my mobility is severely limited and I am often in pain. I also have developed fibromyalgia and beat cancer last year. I say all of that so OP understands I’m not talking from a place of ignorance. I understand the frustration and difficulties of living disabled. The feeling that you’re living just outside of the reality that everyone else exists in and enjoys. Running, jumping, sports, even PE all were cut out when my knee started dislocating on the regular when I was around 10. I’ve had a cane since I was 15. I have a wheelchair I have to use for anything that would require walking or standing for any amount of considerable time. But, OP, please read what this person wrote. Save it and come back to it. Journal on it. It’s so important. Because that anger will turn to bitterness and it will tear you apart and make your life even more miserable. All of that anger and blame and indignation will only hurt *you* \- not them. And, as you get older still holding on to that anger, you will become a very miserable, very bitter, very hardened man. Do it for you. Not for them. Get into therapy, work through the anger and blaming your family for your existence and condition. Again, not for them. For YOU. You’re going to have to be your strongest ally and advocate. The world isn’t designed for us and you’re going to have a hard enough time of it as it is. Please don’t make it harder on yourself by letting bitterness harden your heart and twist your mind. It doesn’t mean you have to talk to your family or have them in your life, but it does mean you can work to get to a place mentally/emotionally where the thought of them doesn’t cause you bitterness and you can stop blaming them. Their intentions were good and pure. They did not give you life with an intent of malice or harm. I’m sure they feel tremendous guilt and I’m certain that they love you and don’t regret bringing you into the world and the family, but do regret that you suffer. I wish you all the best. I’m so sorry you’re going through this but you have the strength to turn it around. Do it for you. You deserve to be happy and you can never be when bitterness is slowly eating away at your peace of mind and hardening your loving heart.
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I’m in this boat too. My parents weren’t aware of any genetic abnormalities in our family lines, but I got the genetic cesspool anyways. Oddly enough, it was because of me that we know some of these things are in our family genetics.
A
Woah.. I have ADHD, Elhers Danlos and Bipolar.. I wonder if these conditions are somehow related? It seems like such a specific combination. Quite the cocktail hey? But you just gotta keep fighting the good fight.
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KATV – 1 student shot inside Wootton High School in Montgomery County; another student in custody
