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How to find community while rejecting toxic positivity

The other parents in our support group keep saying everything happens for a reason and I want to tell them that some things just happen and they are terrible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The search for understanding and support conflicts with others' need to impose meaning on meaningless suffering.

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