The Importance of Assimilation

When you don't give voice to a thought that you have, it sometimes dies. And how did it feel for you as a young child to have to be so agreeable all the time? It was progress towards fitting in, gaining friends, accumulating sleepovers. I wonder whether, when my parents perfectly innocently asked things like, how are things at school? Are you making friends? and I made it feel like an achievement. So even as I was getting further away from myself and losing parts of myself, it felt like I was gaining something other than speaking up for myself.

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