Just need some, I don't know, support & sympathy maybe? I haven't been out on highways much since we moved in May, and what a relief it was to get off the highway! But I didn't expect this reaction-- when I do bike on a highway, apparently I'm super sensitive now to the usual treatment cyclists get. I've been on a highway twice this summer. On one trip I noticed how uncomfortable I was. But today, when someone honked & yelled 'Get off the road' I was so upset I actually cried. This is ridiculous. I've put up with that sort of stuff for years. After the initial shock, learning that it happens to everyone, and finding my own coping mechanisms, like joining & volunteering for bike/ped advocacy, it didn't bother me anymore. Until last year. Now I just can't handle it at all!

A bit of background for those who aren't familiar with my story-- my daughter on her bike was hit by a truck on that highway last year. She recovered, it took me a bit longer (I was right behind her). I did return to biking, and biked on that same highway (unhappily) the rest of the year right up until we moved. Is this reaction more of the "getting over it" stuff? It'll go away on its own?