> "Keep whatever poison in your brain to yourself, and don’t go spreading and trying to make it normal! Better yet, get help!"

The “keep whatever poison in your brain to yourself” is just an attempt to silence those who you’re uncomfortable with. Sorry, but that’s not going to happen. The reason why I and many other pedophiles are here is not because we want to broadcast to the world that we’re pedophiles and we fantasize about having sex with children, it’s to raise awareness of the fact that being pedophiles doesn’t make us automatically child molesters and therefore we should not be demonized for it, since we didn’t choose it and we do choose not to harm children.
But, you see, me and everyone like me are constantly demonized and vilified simply for being what we are, something that we didn’t choose and can’t change. We are all assumed to be monsters, perverts who prey on children, or ticking time bombs that will eventually molest a child. So we grow up since a young age — pedophilia is no different than any other orientation and we most often become aware during puberty — receiving messages from society saying that we’re monsters, the scum or the earth, and that we deserve to be put down regardless of whether we have ever harmed anyone or not. Don’t believe me? Two studies showed that between 14% and 28% of the population believe that pedophiles should better be dead regardless of whether they have ever harmed a child in their lives:

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This makes people grow up feeling desperate, depressed, suicidal… to the point where many — too many — young teenagers discovering their sexual orientation actually commit suicide. Are you *honestly* going to tell me with a straight face that it’s fair? Do you *honestly* expect us to just let society continue to wish us dead for something none of us chose but choose not to act on? If you do, I’m really sorry to disappoint you, because we simply won’t. You won’t silence our voice.