Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager en
They were not only attacked in the bathroom along with another trans student, the school suspended them for two weeks for being the victim of hate crime.
Talking about real trauma / murder under the cut be warned
I'm 5 days sober and with clarity comes the old thoughts again. My blog is where I talk sometimes, I'll try to tag appropriately
It was a year after his murder, after I found the body and caught the killer literally red handed over him, thar I went back into that room and just
Laid down
Right where I had found him
I put my body in the same position he had been in, and stared at the ceiling, wondering if he'd stared at the same spot or if he'd already been dead by the time she dragged the body that far.
I didn't stay there for long, maybe a few minutes. But I think about it sometimes. And sometimes, when I'm at that house, which i am almost every day, and I pass the room, I stare at the spot where he was. I'm the only one besides police and ambulance who saw what I saw, for they cleared him out before anyone else arrived.
Experiences like that give you feelings that are big but un-nameable
“Hell is other people,” boasted the 20th-century philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, and for many of us, he was very right, at least sometimes. What do our work lives and our driving lives have in common? They leave us no shortage of rage. People can be–challenging, to say the least, quite often, and this fact becomes extremely obvious when we have important tasks at hand, like sustaining our…