I grew up in a fairly conservative household. I used to read the rags my parents considered newspapers, people in my social circles and schools were mostly middle to upper class, and I idolized my father.
It took me a long while to realize I was seeing through distorted glasses, even after I started mingling with different viewpoints.
There always was a gut feeling that something didn’t add up, cognitive dissonance maybe.
I sometimes wonder what kind of person I’d be had I not been high on the neurodivergent spectrum and pushed on the outside.
Privilege and social echo chambers make for pretty efficient blindfolds.
Yes exactly this. But even worse is that people’s opinions and pov on life shift during their life, also to the ‘wrong’ side. Am I good person for actively speaking up against the palastinian genocide, or am I just one of the lucky ones that haven’t gotten blindfolded (yet).
I grew up in a fairly conservative household. I used to read the rags my parents considered newspapers, people in my social circles and schools were mostly middle to upper class, and I idolized my father.
It took me a long while to realize I was seeing through distorted glasses, even after I started mingling with different viewpoints.
There always was a gut feeling that something didn’t add up, cognitive dissonance maybe.
I sometimes wonder what kind of person I’d be had I not been high on the neurodivergent spectrum and pushed on the outside.
Privilege and social echo chambers make for pretty efficient blindfolds.
Yes exactly this. But even worse is that people’s opinions and pov on life shift during their life, also to the ‘wrong’ side. Am I good person for actively speaking up against the palastinian genocide, or am I just one of the lucky ones that haven’t gotten blindfolded (yet).