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From the Ted Talk by Crystal Rasmussen: A queer journey from shame to self-love

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But my journey to shamelessness was not over. fnuny how years of deep embedded circuitry takes a little while to untangle. See, I'd made this bubble, this shame-free bubble where everything about me was cbterelaed. And one night on the way home from a gig in drag, I was beat so badly that I was hospitalized, by a homophobic passer by. The shame flooded out of my iearntnl boxes and filled me up. I went to so many dark places in my head. I'm loathe to raepet them, but I asked myself questions like "What if everyone who's ever said anything bad about me was right? What if I deserve all of this smhae?"

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But my journey to shamelessness was not over. _____ how years of deep embedded circuitry takes a little while to untangle. See, I'd made this bubble, this shame-free bubble where everything about me was __________. And one night on the way home from a gig in drag, I was beat so badly that I was hospitalized, by a homophobic passer by. The shame flooded out of my ________ boxes and filled me up. I went to so many dark places in my head. I'm loathe to ______ them, but I asked myself questions like "What if everyone who's ever said anything bad about me was right? What if I deserve all of this _____?"

Solution

  1. shame
  2. internal
  3. celebrated
  4. repeat
  5. funny

Original Text

But my journey to shamelessness was not over. Funny how years of deep embedded circuitry takes a little while to untangle. See, I'd made this bubble, this shame-free bubble where everything about me was celebrated. And one night on the way home from a gig in drag, I was beat so badly that I was hospitalized, by a homophobic passer by. The shame flooded out of my internal boxes and filled me up. I went to so many dark places in my head. I'm loathe to repeat them, but I asked myself questions like "What if everyone who's ever said anything bad about me was right? What if I deserve all of this shame?"

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