Surprising revelations you don't reveal for years because you don't remember until reminded that it was a thing to reveal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jaycaspiankang
None of my fucked up family shit rises to the level of an atrocity like enslaving someone but I still see myself in Tizon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jaycaspiankang
Which I'm not proud of, and tbh it did send me into a paranoid flurry of "Should I have reported X and started an investigation"
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But that's just an undercurrent of life in an immigrant community. You hear fucked up shit but it's not for outsiders' ears
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"X's dad beats the shit out of him but that's how it is in Taiwan", "Did you hear abt how Y's mom treats their nanny"
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And I'm not saying that's ok. Or that ppl have no right to judge. But the culture gap compounds that question of complicity
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Replying to @arthur_affect
If you want to know how much that messed me up as a kid I remember thinking "I wish I were white so I could go into foster care and be ok"
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Which obviously isn't actually true -- and if anything it was a trip for me learning that white, majority-culture kids have that same fear
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Of the System destroying the only family structure they've ever known even though it is fucked up
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But in a minority culture those walls go up very fast
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Just try in a mostly-immigrant or 2nd-gen room of ppl to start the convo abt corporal punishment and when it becomes abuse
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