[ SECRET POST #5889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5889 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Please don't apologize for this excellent response! It made me very happy reading something so heartfelt in response to my secret about a movie that I think doesn't really get remembered or talked about.

I do have a lot of like trauma experiences that for some reason people find unbelievable so I understand not being understood... But at the same time, my parents are habitual liars who expect me to believe everything they say even as they reject my own experiences, so eh... I know what it's like to be on both sides on things as well, but I still don't know how to feel about this fictional dad from the movie, haha.

I would've never have thought about things from the perspective of a third culture person, but yeah, that would indeed be reaffirming! Thank you for the different insight, it was very interesting. :)

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'm glad my reply made you happy.

I think a lot of people have been through something traumatic, and then their sense of being alone with it was compounded by other people not believing them. This is part of why groups advocating for social change put so much emphasis on outreach about NOT immediately jumping to the conclusion that survivors are lying or brought it on themselves. I don't think enough attention gets paid to doing that responsibly, as opposed to in a knee-jerk "all skepticism is bigotry" way, but I think when people first hear about something horrible and threatening that they had no idea existed, often their immediate impulse is to just insist it's fiction. Or at least being misrepresented. This is still a problem in relation to a lot of abuse that's not well-recognized as abuse, like social mobbing or sexual assault of men. And, in a sense, I feel like repeated lobbying campaigns to the effect that "X group of people has a real complaint" is an awkward and unresponsive solution to people not doing a very good job listening to each other and feeling out when to empathize in real-time.

No, but ... given that children tend to believe their parents by default (even when what they say is outlandishly unlikely), and only disbelieve them if something important keeps contradicting their assumption that this person is trustworthy, I keep feeling like that's a pretty different thing than what's going on in Big Fish.