There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.