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Book Assignment #2: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) by Paulo Freire

Posting these snippets for I know some people who need to read these messages and this book, particularly, kasi nga "the existence of the oppressed is necessary to their [oppressors'] existence". Periodt.

For me, truly, the unloved are not the oppressed but the oppressors. Sila talaga yung mga kulang sa aruga eh.

And they dehumanize themselves too in the process.

They are the 'entitled' ones, too.

Our oppressors only live for us—those whom they oppress.

Smells like COVID, eh?

It's a cycle, you see.

For this reading, I would like to reflect on my favorite part of the book which made me realize a lot of things.

I am linking this to the impostor syndrome, which, I think, I have. I am self-diagnosed, though. Not sure if this deserves a proper diagnosis, but I only feel that the signs match with what I have been experiencing throughout my life. This has sprung from the inferiority I had back when I was not yet open to the public about my stutter—a speech impediment that disallows me from being fluent in my speech, causing me to have involuntary blocks and repetitions of either words or syllables. This speech impediment, later on, gave me speaking anxiety, where there are times I could blurt out words properly and have no stutter but feel intensely nervous instead.

In my teenage years, I had known myself to be someone who totally lacked confidence most especially when facing people in public to the mere point that saying my name, introducing myself during JS prom had stressed the hell out of me and put me in a state of complete humiliation.

Later on in my life, also connecting it to my stutter and speaking anxiety, people I would tag as “my oppressors” would think I am lying, am not sure about my answers or whatever I'm saying, am a fraud, am not qualified to do what I have been asked to do, or, simply, have poor memory, and would tend to distort my reality by framing it to whichever way they want to—which, has a clearer term now, gaslighting.

This, consequently, led me to struggle with saying no to people and choose my friends carefully, thinking they’d only be a burden to my life if I’d always deal with helping them. It’s a long story to tell but I think it deserves proper sharing when given the chance to.

I wish that people knew more about these things that I read from the book, so they can spare themselves from being "the oppressed" or at least somehow help in alleviating the pain and suffering brought about by oppressors to others.

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