I hate how people make generalizations of groups of people and then get mad at me for defending them. Like I'm white and vegan but I have nothing against PoC (well I may have unconcious biases which I'm working on getting rid of), and vegan and I'd rather others be vegan but (c) They dont have to. And so when people say one of those groups are all bad it makes me feel bad, especially for others like me who arent bad and it makes them believe that they are bad, because that used to be me. And I also just hate generalizations because generalizations (c)

@hankgreen Ok I went every single response to the main tweet and I found all of these types of worth and how they find them, a thread (and for me a long google keep note :P)

External:

Worth from being unique:
This seems to frequently stem from trauma because they made you feel less @hankgreen than and also more likely to come from how society perceive worth.

Being acknowledged:
This comes from wanting to have done well or be unique
This is POSSIBLY because you weren't told that much as a child but more likely because it's like "hey you, you exist" and may make

I'm going to talk a bit about an experience I just had.
So I was saying my experience with a situation that wasnt racist but felt kinda upsetting to me and a group of people got mad at me for talking about it. Once I said I was autistic, one of them apologized and said I seemed tone deaf. Which I probably was (and am).
If they had moe awareness and acceptance of autism instead of calling me a troll (which they did) and getting upset at me they may have thought that I was autistic and treated me with that empathy of "they may not understand

A list of easy ways save energy! energyupgradeca.org/save-energy-ca/ I dont know why its calofrnoia centric but it would be beneficial for anywhere