• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Similar situation growing up. I asked my mum once how she coped with it all, and her answer still freaks me out sometimes.

    She said she didn’t know she was a person who had choices, or could think about the situation she was in. She just did as she was expected to.

    She’s in her 60s now and is far more in tune with her emotions, thoughts and feelings than I remember her when I was a kid.

    Can you just imagine? Being virtually catatonic in autopilot most of your life, because no one encouraged you to live? It chills me.

    I watched Westworld recently, and I can definitely draw some parallels behind the theory of a bicameral mind it hints at, where automatons slowly start to awaken and take control of the voice in their head telling them to do things…