There’s this bizarre idea that people have their own individual truths, that what they experience and feel simply must be valid and correct, and that nothing they say can be untrue because they say it.
Now, this isn’t as stupid as it sounds. People’s feelings are valid, even if unwarranted. Just telling someone they shouldn’t be scared doesn’t make the fear go away, so we would do well to remember that no, those feelings are, in fact, valid.
The rest is really about personal experience, which is hard to dispute in many cases, so the idea of taking people at face value may well make sense.
The problem? It seems that one’s personal truth only matters if it’s one approved by the powers that be.
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