2024 and 2025 wounded me. Not the kind of wound you can bandage. The kind that seeps into your spirit and teaches you how quiet pain can be. My heart was ripped into pieces in ways I never imagined. I lost parts of myself trying to survive spaces that were never meant to hold me. I was judged. Misunderstood. Mislabeled. People spoke about me without ever speaking to me. They formed opinions without context, conclusions without conversations. And I carried that weight—silently, gracefully, even w