Maybe we don’t say it enough

Every now and then, we’ll receive and email and the relief we read in having found us will take us aback… the relief isn’t necessarily about finding a dress - it’s about not feeling judged, about there not being any pressure to be someone they’re not, that they can bring their whole self to the appointment and simply be accepted. And every time it catches me off guard.

Not because I don't understand why they are saying it. But because I've spent most of my life in the goth community, and somewhere along the way I forgot that not everyone takes that acceptance for granted.