First time on tumblr in 2 years. I’m definitely not the same person just from the first ten posts. The posts about being clinically depressed do not resonate anymore. I am happy now. It’s a blessing how much I have learned emotional resilience skills and have a whole hearted sense of being present.
It makes me get curious when I see celebrities being dragged for things they have said years in the past on social media. I wonder of the over 16,000 posts on here I’m sure I’ve said something that no longer resonates with who I am or what I value. There may even be something I posted that would be hurtful to someone somewhere.
I’m sure there has to be one or more post that just completely reflects the angry, unconscious person I was when I started tumblr in when I was a teenager.
I invite a more compassionate and forgiving internet culture that allows people to evolve. We are creating in this very moment a standard of how we hold people accountable on the internet. There hasn’t before been a generation that literally grew up on the internet, a public backlog of mental dribble and 3am retweets.
I see in the future people recognizing someone’s scattered blunders on social media 7+ years ago (just like US bankruptcy laws lol) expire as a reflection of who they are, given they are within the reasonable level of clearly this person has grown and had consistently been behaving appropriately since.
This is coming from a transgender person who has so much understanding for people who have said transphobic things in the past but consistently make different choices. My own mother didn’t support me, said horrible things, I don’t drag her for filth when she slips up even now calling me the wrong pronoun. I recognize where she was, is and where she is going. Doing that has allowed her to come back to being one of my biggest supporters. I gave her space to grow. That’s when real conversation and change happens.
And if someone does have the time to go back through my 16,000 posts I’d gladly delete anything you brought to my attention that was shameful. It would save me the trouble, I don’t have the time and I don’t want to delete my blog because I transitioned genders on here with photos, videos, and posts. It’s a priceless capsule that maybe will help people.
