4 tweets · June 2023 · 53 likes · 2 retweets · read on Twitter
I'm allowed to have my own stories about you but that doesn't give me the right to impose them on you you're allowed to have your own stories about me but that doesn't give you the right to impose them on me (or, in either case, on the social scene around us)
I'm allowed to have my own stories about myself but that doesn't give me the right to impose them on you you're allowed to have your own stories about yourself but that doesn't give you the right to impose them on me (or, in either case, on the social scene around us)
the original seed phrase here I got from @utotranslucence: "I'm allowed to have my own stories about you but that doesn't give me the right to impose them on you"
seemed important to write out all 4 variations, esp because many people believe that someone's self-stories holds special status and that they *do* have the right to impose them on everybody but that way lies insanity; everyone needs to be free to make the sense they're making!