By Edward Hallowell — 2020
A stigma is unjust and evil. But stewing about it won’t help. Banding together with other moms and families will.
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Last spring an 18-year-old college freshman who got straight A’s in high school—but was now failing several courses—came to my office on the campus where I work as a psychologist.
If you do fight you don’t necessarily win; but conversely, . . . “If you don’t fight, you don’t win.”
Activists want to be relevant and noticed and adopt tactics toward that end, but at the same time, they want to build support in the general public—and it’s just very hard to do both of those things at once.
When shame takes over, all we want is to get out of its discomfort—and in order to do so we often end up invalidating the other person involved to help ourselves feel better.