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Empathy is hard to have if you can’t picture yourself in someone else’s shoes. I read a lot of psychology especially on schizophrenia, my dad had it. But having it versus book knowledge. When you experience it things are more real and impactful and the illness is specialized to fit your own story. How could you ask someone to understand disability if they’re not disabled? It’s like talking to a blind man about sunsets.
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I don’t know but I experience a great deal of discrimination now.
I think the only way to overcome a lack of confidence is to do what you’re afraid of doing, and doing it repeatedly.
Seneca, a Stoic philosopher, said that we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. For example, there was a time when we were toddlers and didn’t know how to walk. We didn’t sit on the floor and say that we will walk only when we have the confidence to walk. We walked and fell down. We walked a little more than the first time and fell down. And so on.
I think this video is worth checking out:
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I’ve driven for decades. I also prove you can have no confidence or self esteem and still work.
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