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I'm considering going on hiatus.
I have several opinions that I think would get me into trouble if I voiced them, so I'm not voicing them, even though I think they're true. I'm silencing myself because of social pressure. The topics are 'hot' right now, and mine is very much the minority opinion in this social circle.
I don't feel very welcome, or safe, for varying reasons. I've thought about paring my reading list down to about six people and I've thought about defriending down to about six people. I've thought about deleting, too. I've got email addresses for most of the people I would want to keep in touch with. I realize that sounds a bit extreme, but I'm just--very tired. My recent attempts to have conversations have gone in certain patterns that I don't feel like participating in, for the most part. Not always, but mostly.
I don't know. I just don't.
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I have several opinions that I think would get me into trouble if I voiced them, so I'm not voicing them, even though I think they're true. I'm silencing myself because of social pressure. The topics are 'hot' right now, and mine is very much the minority opinion in this social circle.
I don't feel very welcome, or safe, for varying reasons. I've thought about paring my reading list down to about six people and I've thought about defriending down to about six people. I've thought about deleting, too. I've got email addresses for most of the people I would want to keep in touch with. I realize that sounds a bit extreme, but I'm just--very tired. My recent attempts to have conversations have gone in certain patterns that I don't feel like participating in, for the most part. Not always, but mostly.
I don't know. I just don't.
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