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Hi everyone, welcome back to Teenagey Therapy, I'm Gayao, I'm Thomas, and welcome back to the podcast

about a very specific issue that I feel like a lot of you probably might get our feelings on

it was funny when we did that poll about in the episode about nepotism kids, one of the polls on the episode was

what's your family income and of course the majority was on the lower end, which I think is very relevant to the experiences that we share

and in this case our experiences with activism and the pressure to do more politically,

which I think is very, very heavy on our generation specifically, because I think a lot of the media portrays Gen Z as

a politically savvy, passionate generation, which I think a lot of us are, but that could be a little discouraging

when you don't have resources to actually create the change you maybe want to.

And there's this, the feeling I'm talking about is something that I was thinking about recently, and that's when you hear about other people

your age talking about all of the activism they do or the political contributions they make to kind of in their democracy

and whatnot in their government, and so they talk about the way they organize this protest or the way they

you know set up this movement or you know got this and this and this and this and this and this.

And what I've noticed is there's this sense of discomfort that I feel when I am around white people talking about their activism

and I can never understand why.

And I've been in this situation a couple of times where it's people my age maybe slightly older, just talking about you know like all the work they've done,

all the activism they're involved in, and the work they've done for the causes they believe in.

And even though I like there's, I have nothing against them, I think it's great, it's helpful, it's you know it's pushing for a good cause.

There's always this sense of discomfort I feel uncomfortable, I didn't really know what it was, it almost felt like shame.

And I noticed every time I'm in one of those conversations I kind of just get slightly quiet and I'm not really sure what to say.

And I didn't know why because I'm like I agree with this like there's no problem they're not saying anything wrong but I feel weird.

And I realized it's because hearing their conversations about all the activism and things they did at a young age where there was in middle school, high school, college.

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