please dont be too personal to yourself

but mine is that i began to dislike big tech and corporate social media

  • digdig@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    My desire to understand what happened during my upbringing in a heavily religious envrionment.

    It engaged me for a desire to understand, not just science, but people, anything was an escape from this dogma.

    I’m really enjoying the science side.

    But I realise I have major untreated Trauma and I’m scared of dealing with it. It’s my “Elephant in the room”.

    But I thrive off it, it’s like an energy core within me, like this ANTICORE.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Great introspective question causing me to reflect, but an answer I’ll respectfully reserve for myself.

    • digdig@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Lol, here’s me spending 15 mins composing myself and you just straight up said it.

      Props to you stringere.

      This is what I said:

      "My desire to understand what happened during my upbringing in a heavily religious envrionment.

      It engaged me for a desire to understand, not just science, but people, anything was an escape from this dogma.

      I’m really enjoying the science side.

      But I realise I have major untreated Trauma and I’m scared of dealing with it. It’s my “Elephant in the room”.

      But I thrive off it, it’s like an energy core within me, like this ANTICORE."

      • stringere@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 days ago

        You said it a lot more eloquently and provided more context, though, and I appreciate that.

        My upbringing and events that happened during childhood really led me to a parh of compassion and gave me a drive for self reflection amd betterment. Seeing ignorance and blind faith cause so much pain and suffering really made me want to make things better in the world. I hope I’ve done so in my little corner of it.

  • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Disliking big tech and corporate social media isn’t a personality… that’s not you. That’s just shit you don’t like. There are tons of people that are nothing like you that dislike the same shit.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    Probably undiagnosed mental illness. I spent 30+ years as a round peg trying to fit in a square hole, until I realized one day that the way I like to be is fine and I should enjoy an existence that fits me.

  • allywilson@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 days ago

    Found computers very interesting. Broke them. Watched how to fix them. Broke them again. Fixed them myself. Rinse and repeat.

  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
    2·
    4 days ago

    Loving parents and growing up in a small town, a 10 year failed marriage that resulted in 3 kids I love to the moon of which 2 of them are on the spectrum. Many failed relationships.

    I’m proud of the man I’ve become at 49 years old.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 days ago

    It’s two-sided.

    On one hand, I was raised by a forest ranger to hunt and fish and camp, spent my childhood in the boy scouts learning all that stuff, and brought up in strict, yet community-oriented religion.

    On the other hand, I spent every other waking moment on the computer. I was essentially raised by the web circa 1995-2004. I was exposed to so many different viewpoints then. The web wasn’t nearly as insular then as it is now. You’d have forums where everyone spoke to each other. I learned to question my religion and eventually found my way out. I rejected all the right-leaning beliefs I was raised to have.

    And yet, I wouldn’t trade that first part of my childhood, because it was genuinely a nice childhood. I saw what real community can be, something that I now lack. I picked up a thing or two about how to be a moral and capable person along the way. And gained lifelong friendships.