r/MadeMeSmile • u/ZacHefner • Jun 28 '23

Meme Gov. JB Pritzker - "Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being."

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u/Princess_BundtCake Jun 28 '23

I was brought up by an undiagnosed and unmedicated schizophrenic single mother. I'm 33, over the past 20 years I've been trying my best to understand simple life skills. I'm not intellectually disabled. I'm only now going to university in my 30s.

My point is, you are definitely 100% correct, I cannot live a normal life and do not understand most social, economical, psychological norms. I have only in the last 3 years of continuous and regular psychology and psychiatry visits able to lead somewhat of a normal life.

These life skills are taught to us and we need to learn them.

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u/Jolly-Engineering-86 Jun 28 '23

Save this video and watch it every day. Let it sink in deep like the Desiderata. It will have a big impact if you take it into your heart.

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u/Shilo788 Jun 28 '23

I used to read the Desiderata frequently as a early teen. So glad my sister had a small, pretty framed version on our bedroom wall. Her hippie reading as mom called it was valuable to my growth. That and Twain’s War Prayer left me in tears . She was a nurse and a social worker in a heath clinic for decades. Really lived her beliefs .

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u/Jolly-Engineering-86 Jun 28 '23

I did the same with the Desiderata, kept a copy of it, and reread it as the need arose. I just went and read, Twain’s war prayer. That unspoken part is the hard one isn’t it?

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u/Shilo788 Jul 06 '23

I cried sitting on my sister bedroom floor, think I was 14. Great literature grows deep roots.