Rethink Your Personal Safety
If there is someone actively looking for you, if there is someone abusive sleeping in the next room, if you are in immediate danger — get out. Leave. If you decide later that you were over reacting, that’s okay. Sensible loved ones will understand. Get to a safe place, at the very least a public place, and do your best to seek aid. Maybe you come from a cultural background which has left you with the belief that people like you “don’t call the cops” $^a$. If the people who taught you that calling the cops isn’t something people like you do are available to support you during your crisis right now, that’s awesome. Call them. ACAB would be a great motto in ’90s South Chicago or ’70s Limerick. Such situations, where law enforcement cartoonishly and openly acts against the best interests of their people, are increasingly rare in the developed world — not extinct — but slowly going away.
If you do live in a place where the cops shake people down in the streets and don’t hide their organized crime affiliations. Don’t call them; find the first grandmother you can — anyone’s grandmother. Genuinely oppressed or marginalized people shouldn’t trust authorities. But genuinely oppressed people also tend to have real communities. If you have people you play ball with in the street, neighbors whose names and business you know, if your poor neighborhood is your whole world and you’re united against outsiders who exploit and abuse you daily, sure, fuck the police. But if you don’t have that community and you also choose to reject the establishment, then you are failing to accept help because of the advice of people who cannot or will not help you. Do not become helpless by your own negligence. If you are in immediate danger, call 911, your regional equivalent, or the people you can count on to come to your rescue.
If you are in a sustained crisis but not in immediate danger, get to a safe place, then get help from someone who doesn’t have the same kinds of problems as you. Don’t run to your friend’s house if her boyfriend also slaps her around sometimes. If you don’t have anyone you can count on, just keep moving until you find a punk or a goth. I’m not even kidding. If there is no one in your life you can trust, approach a stranger with too much eye make up and a bunch of freaky tattoos and tell them you need help. This advice has saved lost children and victims of abuse. It is not a guarantee. There are no guarantees regarding personal safety. But if you don’t have anyone to lean on, seek someone who has made a life on the outside of the mainstream because the odds are somewhat greater that they’ve made it through something similarly difficult or know people who have. Come back and read the rest of this book when you’ve found a little room to breath. The methods in this book will help you build yourself a safer more peaceful life. But you need a relatively safe place to read and think in order to make them work. If that isn’t where you’re at. Your first task is to get there.
Now. Go!
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