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You made me laugh. Lots of people consider me arrogant. Perhaps I am. I don't care.

Those who know me tell me if anything, I'm very humble, and there is no arrogance about me.

I do think it's presumptuous to assume that one can use the experience in one's own life to think those things will help others.

Of course, one can certainly write about what happened to one, but articles that start with 'How to..' based on one's own life experience rather than universal evidence makes me wary.

I survived incredible abuse. According to those who worked with me in my 50s, people like me are dead by the time they are 25. Telling people how I survived would be nonsensical. My DNA helped me through. I was not and am not responsible for my DNA.

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