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Would you feel comfortable briefly sharing your experience? I'm curious if you had an 'aha!' moment or maybe your environment at that time had any effects.
by hackable_sand 3y ago
Would you feel comfortable briefly sharing your experience?
I'm curious if you had an 'aha!' moment or maybe your environment at that time had any effects.
- diggan 3y agoThe "aha" moment was mostly about accepting that people are different and as long as they don't force anything upon me or doing anything affecting me, I shouldn't really care that much. The environment was just my own apartment and a friend talking about various topics for ~10 hours when we were about 17 years old or so after a 1.5 dosage LSD (don't remember the exact dosage, but we had three sugar cubes with one dose each, one of them got split in half to share). I grew up in a country-side place where homophobia and nationalism is basically thought by parents by default to kids. Doing "sieg heil" in a sneaky way during events was considered funny by most. Most of the people hadn't seen a non-white person until we had to start traveling to the nearby city for school, which happens around the 17 year old mark. So basically being exposed to lots of preconceived hate since birth. A lot of the subjects we talked about were about acceptance as we both had our own experiences rejecting or distancing ourselves from people based on perceived "weaknesses", something we both realized was just introducing harm and isolation.
- hackable_sand 3y agoIt's tough. Thanks for sharing.