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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 6 years ago

Many of us were consistently taught not to do this for decades, by parents, school, etc. The #1 message I got from my parents growing up is that they knew what was best for me and my experiences / feelings didn't matter in the slightest. That still deeply affects me today. https://t.co/q4C2dp21mn

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

It’s interesting to me how many people consistently undervalue their own experience and their own feelings. Both are extremely valuable. The best book you could possibly read is IMO the book of your own life

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

And it's not like they did that in a vacuum either - they both grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, where valuing your own experiences and feelings could get you publicly humiliated, tortured, maybe killed. I've never asked them about it. Ancestral trauma, man.

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 6 years ago
Replying to @QiaochuYuan

https://t.co/WkeuDTcQxS

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 6 years ago

I keep having an experience lately that is something like "wow, history actually happened, to people who really existed, some of whom are alive today." It's striking that I didn't get this experience from history class in school.

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