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Thank you for sharing. I was aware of androgen insensitivity syndrome, but this is the first time I'm reading about the experience of a person who has it. I think that by sharing your experiences, you are contributing to the way general public thinks about sex and gender.

Japan stopped vaccinating with MMR vaccine briefly in the 1990s after the fraud Lancet article by Wakefield. Then kids started dying and becoming disabled from measles, mumps, and rubella so they restarted vaccination. But there are still people who were vaccination age in the 1990s who didn't end up getting MMR, and they are the cause of the outbreak.

I have had different experience with a best friend who was a victim of psychological abuse in her household. We were both in college, her health was going downhill from the squalid environment she was living in, depression, and abuse. I am a very practical we have a problem, lets solve it kind of person. So I offered for her to move in with me (I was house sitting for my parents for a few months), rent would be free, I would offer psychological support, clean and safe house, and to get away from abusive situation; and all she would have to do is split minor household chores with me. She refused and sunk deeper into depression. This powerlessness to help for me was so depressing, I had to eventually distance myself from her, while telling her that she was always welcome in my home wherever that is. I am a very empathetic person and she was dragging me down with her into depression. After that she went on to marry an abuser, move half way across the country to a place with no support structure for her; then wised up after couple of years, went to therapy, divorced him, cut off her toxic and abusive family, took advantage of aid offered to women like her, filed restraining order, and finally took monetary aid I had continued to offer her for many years (no strings attached, don't really expect repayment). It would have been so much better if she had taken me up on my offer years ago - that would have cost me literally nothing, since all those empty rooms were just sitting there. But for some reason she just couldn't. She only took my money when she literally had no money to feed her child... So having resources available is useless if the victims of abuse don't take advantage of it, and they often don't.

Their superiors are protecting the abusers because they themselves are compromised. Its a systematic problem. Celibacy is one of the biggest problems, because in reality close to half of all priests are not in fact celibate (Richard Sipe), which means that they are "compromised" and can be blackmailed. So it becomes "Don't ask don't tell" situation, with priests turning blind eye to abuses, or even protecting them, because if they reported them, the other party could report on them as well.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/11/unfaithful/2/

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bal-from-spotlight-to-keepers-richard-sipe-offers-insights-on-sexual-abuse-by-priests-20170525-story.html

http://www.awrsipe.com/Articles/2005-10-05-Celibate_Myth.html

Also The Onion's headline summed it up perfectly: https://www.theonion.com/vatican-on-sex-abuse-report-listen-no-normal-person-1828426080

Yes, if you have a reason to think that you have been exposed to Measles, go to the doctor ASAP, and they can give you (very expensive) immunoglobulin to prevent you from contracting it.