IamA stalking survivor, who shot my stalker in self defense AMA.

You're amazing. I'm going to have my 23 year old daughter read this thread. It's so important for young women to be vigilant in their own safety. I'm happy to see how far you've come since this happened.

Did your attacker have life threatening injuries from the shooting our were they able to arrest him right away?

He was booked in absentia from September 26 to November 23.

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Most likely, or in prison for defending myself.

How did you get the court to understand the severity of it all? And also obligatory what type of duck sized horse would you fight or an horse sized duck

also, if I saw the opportunity to fight a duck sized horse I would instead lure it with sugar cubes, spoil it rotten and raise him alongside my cat October. I shall call her, Ariadne or Ari for short.

There were two restraining orders, a few hundred pages of his messages, phone calls and emails as well as video of him banging on my door with an weapon.

What would it take for you to forgive him?

At this time, I couldn't. I'd love to give an altruistic answer but I can't. I had always prided myself in always seeing the good in everyone and giving people the benefit of the doubt. I can't enjoy people the way I used too, if that makes any sense. He fractured my view of the world forever and I hate that. Now if someone is persistent, I get anxious, always freaking out about ulterior motives. He took that from me. He showed me that sometimes people are just evil and that's all there is to it.

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Go and ask a murderer.