The right to tell your story still deserves care around the lives attached to it.

Your experience is yours to tell, and it is also full of people who did not choose to appear in it. Both things are true at once, which is why this stays genuinely difficult rather than being a question of permission. Care here is not silence or censorship, it is deciding how much detail the story actually needs in order to be true. Often the truth survives losing a name or a scene.

Before you tell or publish, sort the details into the ones holding the story up and the ones that are simply available. Where you can, tell the people involved rather than letting them find out.