I mute and block people for a lot of reasons, most of which come back to the fact that if I get triggered it makes me physically ill so I just don't mess with people who play on the edge.

I periodically try to go through and take people out who I think are unlikely to push my boundaries again but Twitter doesn't make the lists easy to manage. I'm willing to consider appeals.

But my twitter boundaries don't have to seem rational to you, they are there for the defense of my sometimes irrational brain which sees danger in odd places and triggers a cascade reaction that activates a completely dysfunctional autonomic stress response.

It's sort of a miracle that I can function in this environment at all to be honest, I wouldn't have thought myself capable of doing this in 2016. My weird boundaries are one of the reasons I can, I don't mean to be unkind.