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I once told my brother, who was suffering from anxiety, that "No one cares about you when you're out in public". I meant it in the liberating way I had come to
by ehnto 5y ago
I once told my brother, who was suffering from anxiety, that "No one cares about you when you're out in public". I meant it in the liberating way I had come to know it, which is that no one is paying you the negative attention you think they are, because we're all pretty similar so we all blend in with the crowds. But my parents saw it as an insult. Different perspectives I suppose.
- QuercusMax 5y agoYour parents may have interpreted the words "cares about you" to mean "has fond feelings and wants you to succeed" rather than "is interested in whatever you happen to be doing, in the busybody sense". So not so much a difference of perspective, but of vocabulary.