Also from Laurell's blog...

[jenk]

How do you embrace yourself when most of your life you've been taught that what you are, and what you want, and what you're good at, is wrong, even evil? How do you shake a lifetime of negativity? How do you let it go? A piece at a time. One small, bloody, painful piece at a time. Let it go, and feel how much lighter you feel. Let it go, and know that there's a reason that you are the way you are. There's has to be a reason, or all is madness.

I believe that the universe is an orderly place, and thus it can't all be madness.