The suffering and stigma lasts a lifetime … it did with my parents and it will with me. But the suffering is lessened with every generation.

What many people don’t understand is that this is a generational thing for me, my family and for you and your family.

My parents experienced it, they passed some of that suffering to me and I will pass a little bit of that suffering to the generation after me and they in turn a little less to the generation after.

The same with you … you heard the story, you’ll share it with those around you and you will all live with it and understand it … then the generation after will learn again and understand it and accept it.

Then in a hundred years everyone will know it, remember it but be less affected by it and life can go on.

There is no easy fix to this … it will take life times. But the more people there are like you, the sooner we may lessen that suffering.