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Do you ever wish you could go back and tell your younger self something you now know?
I would tell my younger self some version of this: Stop worrying! Though I guess I should also be telling my present self that same thing.
But also, when I think about going back to enlighten my younger self, I think about the hardest parts of my childhood and adolescence. The times when I either doubted myself or blamed myself for things that were never my fault. So I would say this: It’s not your fault! I have two essays in my new book Animal Bodies where I attempt to explore shame and blame from my childhood and adolescence. In one, I blame myself
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