Perpetually Infantilised by Rae Sabine There is an exhaustion that comes from having to prove what others are simply given: capability, credibility, the benefit of the doubt. I’ve spent years living beneath other people’s descriptions of me, translating myself into something easier to believe, softening my certainty so it wouldn’t sound like defiance, explaining my own mind as though it required proof. I’m tired of speaking a language I never chose to learn. I’m learning inst