It took a minute, but I am really good with who I am. I'm fucking delightful.

It is not preachy , rather good. I too find a spiritual feeling in many things requiring deep thought.
This does not infer god or anything of the sort, it just involves letting one be truthful within them self.

I do value greatly many of the differences that set me apart. However, I also know that some those differences are not virtues. They are the small demons which I must guard against.

Thoughts DO have consequences, it's just a question of whether you're considering the real-world consequences or the imagined ones.

So it follows that some thoughts ARE, if not really forbidden, dysfunctional or at least unhelpful.

To me it's not so much a matter of unfettered intellectual freedom as it is a matter of self-discipline, reason and where the responsibility lies for sorting such things out -- with the individual or with some external authority.

I have always known, was treated differently my whole life, bullied, outcast. Tried to hide it for years, just made it worse. Now I celebrate my weirdness & am like a flame to moths!

Well maybe not virtues exactly, but proud of them nonetheless. Virtue is to me a religious construct. i certainly don't stress about me anymore, as i did when (very much) younger

For me, all of the virtues that can be learned are little more than a good response (rather than a gut reaction) to suffering.

I spend a lot of time thinking about empathy. I believe much of the suffering the human race endures is borne of those who are devoid of empathy. I think about this subject all the time.

It could also be phrased as 'to share or not to share'.

Okay.