[ god he's an idiot. he runs his fingers through his hair. ]
... I wouldn't want to put you in that kind of danger. [ which sounds like an excuse and he's already shoved his foot in his mouth before. josh takes a breath. ] I didn't agree to it because I'm afraid of being judged, or whatever. I'm used to it. I've been like this since I was sixteen, and I ran away from Xavier's at seventeen, so...
[ used to it. on his own. ]
People've targeted me. Really bad ones. And... since they can't really hurt me, the hurt the people around me. It's for everybody else's safety. I wouldn't want you getting hurt because I wanted to walk around as myself, that'd be really dumb and selfish of me.
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... I wouldn't want to put you in that kind of danger. [ which sounds like an excuse and he's already shoved his foot in his mouth before. josh takes a breath. ] I didn't agree to it because I'm afraid of being judged, or whatever. I'm used to it. I've been like this since I was sixteen, and I ran away from Xavier's at seventeen, so...
[ used to it. on his own. ]
People've targeted me. Really bad ones. And... since they can't really hurt me, the hurt the people around me. It's for everybody else's safety. I wouldn't want you getting hurt because I wanted to walk around as myself, that'd be really dumb and selfish of me.