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Your choice is survive or die, and most people are almost hardwired to not even regard death as a choice, so there's really no autonomy. I suppose you could say my mind is strong, but that's about as meaningful as saying I have naturally strong muscles: cool, but that's not something I did or earned, that's birth luck.
I don't want to be seen as strong for my struggles. I was only a bit of bad luck from death, would that person have been considered weaker than me now? She's hardly different from me, so if she's weak I'm weak. And if you'd say we're both strong, what's the point in calling a survivor strong anyway? I'll take the title "survivor", but " strong" implies more power than I really had.