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shared by Steve Ransom on 17 Dec 12 - No Cached

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What if we, instead, proudly proclaim that we did things that we are embarrassed about and that’s okay
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efrain might sustain the stigma that we want to end.
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implicitly arguing this sort of behavior is best hidden
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What if, instead, in ten years those teens-now-adults used those tweets and their lingering presence in search results as a teachable moment?
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Let’s promote the idea that those embarrassing tweets, or anyone’s embarrassing digital dirt, can be used to validate identity change and growth.
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we are equally celebrating the cultural norm that expects perfection, normalization, and unchanging behavior. What if more people wore past identities more proudly? We could erode the norm of identity consistency, a norm no one lives up to anyways, and embrace change and growth for its own sake
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it will encourage an understanding of identity as more fluid. This re-understanding might be more tolerant of the non-normal and accepting of change and difference.
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hat a person isn’t just what one is but a non-linear process of becoming rife with starts and stops and wrong turns may grow to be increasingly obvious.
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lack of evidence of our own change.
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