Idk if “little experience” means something in English, but what I meant is non-life changing/threatening. Things that would otherwise go unnoticed.

For me, it was when I stopped drinking acoholic beverages because… I ended up finding it boring, I guess.

I started noticing how low key hostile my environment is towards people who dont drink. People started thinking I was sick, depressed, converted to islam, being snob, etc.

Bartenders started to openly mock me when I asked for a lemonade (they still do) : “We dont do that here”, “Go to a physician if you need that”, “you’re in a bar you know ?”.

I started realizing how hostile my country/region/groups can be to people who dont drink. Never realized that before.

Edit : typo

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    For me, it was the combination of two Linguistic tidbits of info, from uni classes:

    • verb modality being split between epistemic and deontic
    • Linguistics itself being descriptive, while normative grammar being prescriptive.

    I won’t go further on what those posh words mean because they were just the “trigger”. What changed the way that I perceive things was that, by their powers combined, I realised that there’s a deep distinction between

    • what we know, what we don’t know, what’s true or false
    • what we want, what we don’t want, what we consider good or bad

    and that we should never mix both things inside our heads.