@llPK @AlexTheAutisticArtist @wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic I'll come at it from a different angle.
Grew up surrounded by people who had never been taught to recognize or manage their emotions. Discouraged from using rational thought. While rarely being told the truth about anything.
I read early and given free run of the library by fourth grade. I was able to piece together hope in a world that made sense.
Is thinking that a form of superiority?
I don't think so. My life was much the same, in a small town in Utah. My haven was the public library, and I went where ever I wanted, and got books from every section (but lived in the Science Fiction section). It let me know there was a lot more out there than I ever saw in my little town, and gave me hope that I could be part of it.
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I used to tell people I bitterly resented being promised flying cars and didn't get one, but one day I was walking around someone's backyard, having a video chat with someone 3 states away on my tablet, and I stopped and realized "Oh, yeah, this is the future. This, right here."
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@ScottSoCal @llPK @AlexTheAutisticArtist @wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic I must admit that what I know of life in Utah sounds like a combination of all the things I went through, only in one place.
I picked it all up from three different red states, so I had a more diverse experience, I guess.😁
My parents were (probably still are) fundamentalist wackjobs. It made things interesting.
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@ScottSoCal @llPK @AlexTheAutisticArtist @wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic It did me a favor. I could never be the kind of woman they wanted, so I left.
@ScottSoCal @llPK @AlexTheAutisticArtist @wakame @JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic And it turns out we're all still living in the science fiction section, aren't we?