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The Psychology Podcast

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What I'm Trying to Wrap My Head Around Is This

i think that i'm trying to wrap my head around all the different perspectives that are out there now. I see in my son's generation a real ability to just change the pronoun they're using for somebody and the gender attribution for somebody with really very little difficulty. They just do it very facilly and without a lot of anxiety. So when we are reacting in a way that is hostile, what we need to recognize is part of our anxiety is coming from a place of having our own identity implicated. And i think that there's not enough attention paid to the person who's uncomfortable trying to process why am i so uncomfortable?

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