people in public looking at you strange sometimes? - don't care! parents making a comment about your collar? - don't care! someone commenting something weird under one of your posts? - don't care!
mentions physical violence and (very shallow, i.e. not in-depth at all) experience with being assaulted@yama I definitely know first-hand that this is not a good idea for everyone. And I am sorry that you are in such an environment. I hope that you can get to somewhere better very soon
Sadly, where I live (Saxony, Germany; famously right-wing state), physical violence is a very real possibility for me as well. Hell, I have also already experienced physical violence first-hand here, and have been threatened more times than I could keep track of... But personally, for me—and just for me—this is worth it.