Gately and Joelle talk veil and U.H.I.D. — "In other words you hide your…"
‘In other words you hide your hiding. And you do this out of shame, Don: you’re ashamed of the fact that you want to hide from sight. You’re ashamed of your uncontrolled craving for shadow. U.H.I.D.’s First Step is admission of powerlessness over the need to hide. U.H.I.D. allows members to be open about their essential need for concealment. In other words we don the veil. We don the veil and wear the veil proudly and stand very straight and walk briskly wherever we wish, veiled and hidden, and but now completely up-front and unashamed about the fact that how we appear to others affects us deeply, about the fact that we want to be shielded from all sight. U.H.I.D. supports us in our decision to hide openly.’
Context
The doctrine's kernel, complete with its First Step: powerlessness not over deformity but over the need to hide — concealment recast from symptom to admitted, supported condition. "We don the veil" runs like a creed, and "hide openly" is the paradox the whole theme keeps testing (Gately's "shame and concealment, still," vs. this). If the spine had one load-bearing vertebra for U.H.I.D., this is it.