Allow me to clarify; I haven't been on twitter in five years. And secondly, it's my name. It follows me everywhere. I'm aware your comment comes from a place of ignorance and naivete, but having a google result that fundamentally makes it difficult to explain who you are to new friends, but especially women and most especially employers (even McDonalds cares about this shit because what if someone complains?) isn't a situation that is solved by leaving a city.

Further still, your response shows bizarre videogame logic. My parents are in LA. They're getting older. All my friends are in LA. They're my entire emotional support system. I own a place in LA.

You suggestion I uproot my entire life, spend tens of thousands of dollars, leave my aging parents and close friends for an imaginary life where the shaming "wouldn't exist" is a base level fantasy. The shaming follows me wherever I go, invades about a third of conversations if I have to explain anything about my life or what I do, and has led to unprompted harrassment not just in other states but entire other countries.

I was literally harrassed in Miami. Your choice of that city is ironic.

I have shared a sliver of the experience here; this response is dull and thudding. The shaming relies on this kind of response to keep it going. "Hey, it's not a brain tumor!"

You can minimize it into self flagellation, but that's just delusional bargaining with the situation, after someone has already been arrested trying to kill me.

I just shouldn't be getting fucking harrassed and cornered digitally. The problem is not "my experience."

The problem is that an internet article I cannot control has given people permission to endlessly reject and openly attack me. The problem isn't that I'm in the city I was born in, where all the people I love are.

Understand?