I love this post - the concept of environmental volatility and the realization that you can belong, not belong and belong again was very revealing to me! My takeaway; be grounded in self, and adaptable to environment. Also know how your environment can nourish / drain you based on alignment to your values
I think this is particularly valuable for those who identify as autistic. Submerging one's identity for decades in hopes of fitting in is incredibly destructive and limiting.
Iβve read this over and over in bits for the past few days. This experience. Belonging and not belonging is a thing I seem to meet over and over again.
Another one of your beautiful reads! There's so much intelligence, nuance and crisp articulation - yet it never gets heavy! Wonderful, loved it. Thank you for writing and sharing :) π»πΈ
I used to feel really bad about myself in high school and it wasnβt until I got to college when I found myself surrounded by different and more optimistic people that I began to start thinking more highly of myself. I didnβt make the connection between this improvement and the people I was surrounded by until I read your piece.
So happy to see Baldwin here! I host a book club in India and Giovanniβs Room is our pick for the month. We are a group of more than 20 people who are reading the same book, I am just 30 pages in and already a fan!
Itβs serendipitous to read something that is exactly what you needed to hear; thank you for writing this
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I love this post - the concept of environmental volatility and the realization that you can belong, not belong and belong again was very revealing to me! My takeaway; be grounded in self, and adaptable to environment. Also know how your environment can nourish / drain you based on alignment to your values
I think this is particularly valuable for those who identify as autistic. Submerging one's identity for decades in hopes of fitting in is incredibly destructive and limiting.
Iβve read this over and over in bits for the past few days. This experience. Belonging and not belonging is a thing I seem to meet over and over again.
Another one of your beautiful reads! There's so much intelligence, nuance and crisp articulation - yet it never gets heavy! Wonderful, loved it. Thank you for writing and sharing :) π»πΈ
I used to feel really bad about myself in high school and it wasnβt until I got to college when I found myself surrounded by different and more optimistic people that I began to start thinking more highly of myself. I didnβt make the connection between this improvement and the people I was surrounded by until I read your piece.
So happy to see Baldwin here! I host a book club in India and Giovanniβs Room is our pick for the month. We are a group of more than 20 people who are reading the same book, I am just 30 pages in and already a fan!