me straining to telepathically communicate with salespeople as soon as i enter any store: please do not speak to me or i will have to Leave Immediately
I could write an essay about how modern dance saved my life before I turned sixteen, or about how my parents saved my life before I turned sixteen, or about how Buffy the Vampire Slayer saved my life before I turned sixteen, or about how SSRIs saved my life before I turned sixteen and any one of them would be true. It took a lot of things to keep me from dying before I turned sixteen.