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From the Ted Talk by Thandiwe Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself

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So this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult one for me _______ up. The self that I attempted to take out into the _____ was rejected over and over again. And my _____ at not having a self that fit, and the confusion that came from my self being rejected, _______ _______, shame and hopelessness, which kind of defined me for a long time. But in retrospect, the destruction of my self was so repetitive that I started to see a pattern. The self changed, got affected, broken, destroyed, but another one would evolve — sometimes stronger, sometimes hateful, sometimes not wanting to be there at all. The self was not ________. And how many times would my self have to die before I realized that it was never alive in the first place?

Solution


  1. growing
  2. constant
  3. world
  4. created
  5. anxiety
  6. panic

Original Text


So this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up. The self that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected over and over again. And my panic at not having a self that fit, and the confusion that came from my self being rejected, created anxiety, shame and hopelessness, which kind of defined me for a long time. But in retrospect, the destruction of my self was so repetitive that I started to see a pattern. The self changed, got affected, broken, destroyed, but another one would evolve — sometimes stronger, sometimes hateful, sometimes not wanting to be there at all. The self was not constant. And how many times would my self have to die before I realized that it was never alive in the first place?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
embracing otherness 2
black kenyan 2


Important Words


  1. affected
  2. alive
  3. anxiety
  4. attempted
  5. broken
  6. changed
  7. confusion
  8. constant
  9. created
  10. defined
  11. destroyed
  12. destruction
  13. die
  14. difficult
  15. evolve
  16. fit
  17. growing
  18. hateful
  19. hopelessness
  20. identity
  21. interaction
  22. kind
  23. long
  24. panic
  25. pattern
  26. place
  27. realized
  28. rejected
  29. repetitive
  30. retrospect
  31. shame
  32. started
  33. stronger
  34. time
  35. times
  36. wanting
  37. world