Reply #6: I think my political beliefs have a LOT to do with

[Mythsaje]

my natural empathy, my strong sense of fairness, and my innate stubbornness. LOL

I feel for other people, I hate to see people get the shaft, and I will NOT back down from a position I know is right.

The first two are symptomatic, at least to an extent, of my social anxiety disorder. The last comes from having to deal with my father most of my life. He likes to say that he's very proud that I ended up as "my own man..." Even though my journey there, to the point where I'm happy to be who I am, was a long and arduous one.