another metaphor is of the tidal wave; a family/group can be running from their trauma tsunami and all it takes is one member turning around to face it for them to be forced to reckon with all their emotions coming at them, a mile tall and a mile wide, at 800kmphhttps://twitter.com/Aryeh___/status/1215318320754245632 …
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Replying to @Aryeh___
Me learning about my great grandparents getting murdered in and starving in the Great Leap Forwardpic.twitter.com/1bMEStEk65
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Replying to @choosy_mom @Aryeh___
damn. i really don't know my own family's history that far back, would be good to find out before it's too late
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @choosy_mom
it can be liberating to an extent, in the way that finding external causes for internal suffering is liberating...nah that's not the right word... perhaps... validating? clarifying?
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sometimes i feel like the word "source" or "origin" might be more clarifying and useful than "cause", even if that feels like semantics
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"cause" is deeply confused as a concept anyway. you can name a whole web of interlocking causes and effects and which ones stick out as worth particularly paying attention to depends on a whole bunch of stuff
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thanks you two, that does feel like a better term
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Regardless of how you describe the emotional impact, it’s definitely a deeply interesting conversation to have with your parents and older relatives
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It’s especially interesting to track the different ways people embellish, refactor, and omit details from the stories When they talk about family history and life before immigrating, my mom’s accounts are always strikingly different from my dad’s
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It was really shocking to switch from the stories of the holocaust i heard in orthodox circles to the stories i read in secular books/ heard from more secular survivors
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in fundy circles a huge percentage of holocaust stories i heard were 'miracle stories' this or that rabbi survived by flying or some such the books i would read were a lot more realistic and dark
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