Katie Cruz
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Who Does This Help?
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This piece was originally written on Jan 29, 2023. One of the philosophies I try to adhere to is asking: Who does this help? In the midst of conflict, ask yourself who is this helping? What good can come out of what I’m saying or doing right now? If you can’t give an honest answer…
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Letting Ourselves Be Vulnerable
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This piece was originally written on Jan 5, 2023. I had the pleasure of meeting a fellow MAP through video chat yesterday. This person is someone I’ve talked with for a few years online. I’ve always gotten good vibes from them, and we’ve become rather close recently. It was a fun chat and it was…
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This is My Ministry
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This piece was originally written on Jan 2, 2023. I joined the MAP community as a young, naive, teen. I was hopelessly in love with little girls and the prospect of a lifetime of loneliness seemed inevitable and devastating. I had radical ideas of legalizing relationships between adults and tween girls and looked for ways…
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Disorder or orientation?
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This piece was originally written on Feb 17, 2022. Minor attraction is an orientation. It is a hardwired attraction, usually discovered around puberty, just like other orientations such as heterosexuality and homosexuality. Many mental health professionals have called minor attraction an orientation. The DSM-5 states that if the subject doesn’t act illegally on their sexual…
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Ethos
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This piece was originally written on Dec 21, 2021. Sometimes that’s all we can do. Love them and leave a good impression on them, so when they grow up and look back, they hold no contempt for us. If I’ve done that, then I’m successful, as bittersweet as it may be.
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Coming to terms
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This piece was originally written on Oct 22, 2021, in reply to a MAP who was just coming to terms with their orientation. A lot of MAPs were in denial about their orientation, and some were antis. Before I accepted myself, I thought all pedophiles were bad. I said all sorts of anti-pedophile stuff, almost…
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Should MAPs defend LGBTQ people?
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This piece was originally written on May 3, 2021. Should we defend LGBTQ people’s status in society if they condemn us? While being a MAP doesn’t make one LGBTQ, there are a lot of people who are LQBTQ who are also MAPs. I for one am a lesbian along with being a MAP. And I…
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My experience at the 2018 B4U-ACT Symposium
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This piece was originally posted to the Visions of Alice forum on Sep 24, 2018. This past weekend, I traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, United States, to participate in the B4U-ACT 2018 Symposium: Expanding Focus. This was my first time attending such an event, and my first time meeting other self-proclaimed MAPs. Upon arriving at the…
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A Purpose
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I lie here at night, wondering why the world is such a scary place. The hate and violence, they frighten me. The greed and famine, they depress me. The self-centeredness, it disappoints me. But she lies here next to me, snuggled in sweet slumber, nestled in my arms. She knows not the evils of this…