@sydneyfalk So true. Something I really love about making more time to read and living in the city is that I get to see more diversity in the human experience both on the page and the street, and define myself better using that info. Going to a diverse campus that helped me realize I was trans in college.
Seeing children entirely unlike my memories of myself as a child, or people completely unlike me yet also similar in striking ways really makes me rewrite those assumptions.
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@ikea_femme @Elizafox @bea @SarcasmKid
oh! no, I meant Eliza's assumption that she never makes assumptions about people
I used to think that myself but then I realized I was still automatically assuming LOTS of things and I still do -- I just try to examine it consciously
I used to assume EVERYBODY felt schools were prisons -- most people don't to the degree I do/did.
I used to assume EVERYBODY kind of just hated their family -- it's not universally the case.
etc. etc.