It was just another reason for everyone to hate me. [He makes a sound that could almost be a laugh, if it weren't so shaky.] They already had enough of those. I didn't want them to take this one too.
[Your hair's getting long. It looks good on you.]
They'd already taken everything else.
[There was fear of societal rejection behind the decision, maybe, but more important was the obsessive need to hide the things that are most important. His dad went through his emails and his mom went through his room, so he learned how to hide the things they were looking for. Learned how to keep secrets, because people couldn't be trusted.
It's perfectly clear that there's no reason to do that here, and he's gotten better about trusting people enough to occasionally share personal information but there's a reason he died instead of telling anybody his secrets.]
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[Your hair's getting long. It looks good on you.]
They'd already taken everything else.
[There was fear of societal rejection behind the decision, maybe, but more important was the obsessive need to hide the things that are most important. His dad went through his emails and his mom went through his room, so he learned how to hide the things they were looking for. Learned how to keep secrets, because people couldn't be trusted.
It's perfectly clear that there's no reason to do that here, and he's gotten better about trusting people enough to occasionally share personal information but there's a reason he died instead of telling anybody his secrets.]