“That was wonderful. And it’s true, experiencing more than one narrow slice of the world makes everyone “who must pass between” know more and understand more.
“I’m now reading Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are by Brooke Kroeger.
“Impressed by the author’s breadth of circumstances. Most famously non-white heritage people who “passed” into the whiter, more dominant, world, and lost their real one. Though this one is not a history, but a variety of experiences, like a boy of bi-racial heritage dealing with looking like one parent but being more at home in the other’s world.
“I know about LBTQ+ people pretending to be straight most of their time, Neurodivergents not even realizing they are Masking, and Fundamentalists who deconvert while still immersed in a high control religion. But it does bestow some nasty insight, and who knews when someone might need it, or pass one on.”
“That was wonderful. And it’s true, experiencing more than one narrow slice of the world makes everyone “who must pass between” know more and understand more.
“I’m now reading Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are by Brooke Kroeger.
“Impressed by the author’s breadth of circumstances. Most famously non-white heritage people who “passed” into the whiter, more dominant, world, and lost their real one. Though this one is not a history, but a variety of experiences, like a boy of bi-racial heritage dealing with looking like one parent but being more at home in the other’s world.
“I know about LBTQ+ people pretending to be straight most of their time, Neurodivergents not even realizing they are Masking, and Fundamentalists who deconvert while still immersed in a high control religion. But it does bestow some nasty insight, and who knews when someone might need it, or pass one on.”