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Belonging

Finding spaces where you are safe to disagree

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Sep 26, 2023
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At some point, belonging became judged by alignment for me. As a Third Culture Kid, there’s this urge to read the room, to know the rules, and part of how we know we belong is there’s a cultural alignment, there’s a sameness in what we think is right or wrong.

For a million reasons (documented by my therapist), I feel a constant sense of non-belonging…

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