Thank you! I can't tell you how happy that makes me :-D

Especially the thing about having my experiences put in doubt or my opinions discredited because of my atypical emotional reaction, or having people try to argue me out of my emotions because they assume they're opinions in disguise has been extremely frustrating to me in my life, and difficult and complicated to unpack.

Even in this discussion, I kept losing track, and feeling like I was supposed to defend or explain merricatk's emotions or behavior, when what I was really talking about was how people should not argue against her emotions or doubt her experience, so it was also written as a clarification for myself ;-)