Thanks for listening and responding. It's been nice to chat about these things.
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Things are better now. One of the biggest additional problems in the day is, that my first language is English and I live in Quebec, Canada. I grew up during the height of the nationalist era there where the English were absolutely hated on by a large chunk of the province (to the point that I was assaulted more than once). I could only really deal with 1 crisis at a time and that one went on for years. It's better now, and I have a good friend I can talk to about things, but I have an empathy for what others go through with discrimination and overthinking (as I do it all the time). I think that, more than anything is what I empathise most about the Zack character; what he does is something I've been doing for most of my life.
I know exactly how you feel. I grew up with a father who was homophobic due to having been sexually assaulted as a teenager, which made even talking about how I feel nearly impossible and a high school that, charitably wasn't the most socially progressive in the world. All the loneliness Zack feels is exactly how I've felt for much of my life. Reading/going through this story is very cathartic and helpful, fiction or not.