Laufey recounts the meal she shared with Hudson Williams, Alysa Liu, Lola Tung and Megan Skiendiel, after wrapping up “Madwoman” (via @vogueph)
“It genuinely felt like being at the diner after a musical or a show we watched together. It was so much fun, and we talked a lot about growing up and feeling like we were trapped between cultures.”
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Hi, so the woman who carried and gave birth to me was 13 years old, celebrated her 14th birthday only days before I was born. I should’ve been aborted. It’s really terrible that she was made to carry and birth a baby while she was a child herself.
Am I happy to be alive? Yes. Absolutely. Very happy to be here. Would I be mad had I been aborted? No, I wouldn’t exist, I wouldn’t feel anything. I shouldn’t exist. She was a child. The lives of girls/women are more valuable than fetuses.
I’ve said this before, but being a genuinely kind and authentic person who expresses your vulnerabilities and/or doesn’t follow certain unspoken “social hierarchy” rules will put a major target on your back by those who see those traits as “performative” or even manipulative/deceitful.
People who consistently view others that way are telling on themselves. How we perceive the world (including other people) mirrors the conditions of our own inner world.
A healthy person does not interpret basic consideration as some kind of control tactic. A grounded person does not consistently assume the worst of others.
Doing so will either 1. eventually create a self-fulfilling prophecy, or, 2. result in the cognitive distortion of “confirmation bias,” where the other person cannot “win” no matter what they do because you have already decided their intentions or motivations for them.