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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      Being a minority means being an ambassador and representative of your entire community, whether you like it or not. You don’t have a choice in this. Your life is a battleground of collective worries and anxieties, both ingroup and outgrouphttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1044539603007356928?s=21 …

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      Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
      > He was one of three soldiers who failed the test at the Windsor base. > The identities of the other guardsmen have not been revealed. sigh https://twitter.com/ShivaniDave/status/1044538899169718272 …
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    2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      If you want to mess with a child, an effective way to do it is to go through the parents. The child might not fully understand the complex and elaborate way you’re trying to shame him, but he’ll notice that his parents are anxious, angry and afraid

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    3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      Circling back - I didn’t notice this at the time, but this particular letter mentions two issues: internal motivation and poor study habits. I still have poor study habits 😂 but internal motivation was never actually, properly addressed. I wonder why 🤔

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    4. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      The cool thing about having had this experience and having spent over a decade reflecting on it is that I’ve gotten pretty sensitive to buried assumptions and derivative reasoning. So much of social reality is buried assumptions and derivative reasoningpic.twitter.com/Gm2XruZ9OD

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    5. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      Gd question! I think everyone was under pressure. I think the GEP teachers were under pressure to make sure their kids succeeded- it was a small class (13 kids?) and one kid flunking would’ve been a big smudge on both the teacher’s record, and the system’shttps://twitter.com/burgerrb/status/1058968312351080448?s=21 …

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      God this is MEAN. How can teachers write so insentively with complete lack of empathy
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    6. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      Interesting to consider then the sheer amount of weight that was on my 13-year-old back - my parents’, my teachers’, the Indian community’s, and arguably the GEP itself, at the time the crown jewel of Singapore’s education system. My failure would hurt *everyone*. Seemed like it!

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    7. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      The year before that I was called up to the Ministry Of Education HQ and basically interrogated by education officers - and made to sign a “Personal Statement Of Commitment”. It was pretty Kafkaesquehttp://ricemedia.co/tortured-geniuses-gep-kids-on-the-burden-of-being-gifted/ …

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    8. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      At the time it never really occurred to me that I could say no to any of this. My community needed it, right? I was a *child*. I just happened to like reading books, & got excited and curious about things in my own way. Which is still how I am now, reallyhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/986410861039271936?s=21 …

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      Me as a child (before Twitter dot com) pic.twitter.com/v2ZfDRGXQ2
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    9. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      It’s hard to overstate how much this entire experience has shaped who I am as a person. A part of me still constantly needs to prove that I can be a valuable asset to my community - to any community - and not by jumping through hoops and passing tests, but by being who I am.

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    10. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 3 Nov 2018
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      To stand tall and look at society square in the eye, and say with confidence, with love, without anger or bitterness: you were wrong.

      3 replies 2 retweets 31 likes
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Nov 2018
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      Again with the height supremacism huh 🧐

      12:03 AM - 4 Nov 2018
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        2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 4 Nov 2018
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          Replying to @vgr

          😂 I’m talking about posturepic.twitter.com/f3ZAi3sClh

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Nov 2018
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          Replying to @visakanv

          Nice try we’re not buying it You can’t deny you tall people look down on the rest of us

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