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Livvy333
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PathStep 50 Compassion hearts69 Forum posts3 Forum upvotes9 Current upvotes9 Age GroupTeen Last activeApril, 2024 Member sinceJune 20, 2022
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my name is jasper

16 years old
LGBTQ+
he/him

c-ptsd, autism spectrum disorder, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, adhd



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I am white-passing
Young People of Color / by Livvy333
Last post
 June 24th, 2022
...See more I am multiracial, and I am white-passing. I realize that this allows me to move through the world being percieved as white until I say otherwise. I cannot control other's assumptions about me, but the way others percieve me does affect me. I grew up without my poc father and without connection to his family. I grew up in a white household. I was estranged from his culture and didn't have many facial features from him. I felt entirely disconnected to my heritage, but I was also discouraged by family from exploring it. I had a lot of shame about who I was and it was best hidden from others by my family that I was mixed. As I grew older, I wanted to learn about myself and about my 'other' family I had never known. Although I felt guilty for accepting a "mixed" or "poc" title when I didn't look like I was. I felt a strange imposter syndrome and when I walked into poc spaces, I felt like I didn't belong there. I didn't have the shared experiences the rest of them had and I felt no right to intrude on their safe space when I didn't feel *anything* like them. I had no knowledge or connection to my father's culture nor did I deal with the consequences of colorism. If there are any white-passing poc here, talk about your racial and ethnic identity in conjunction to being white-passing along with your experiences.
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