Does The Pain of Rejection and Not Belonging Make You Stronger or Damage You?

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Uploaded by on Jun 6, 2009

Do you think the pain of rejection and not belonging make you stronger or damage you?

I was interviewed by ABC News on TCKID with my friends Ruth Van Reken and Daniela Tudor and we discussed the benefits and the health challenges of being culturally mixed:
Vote here: http://www.tckid.com/group/vote-does-the-pain-of-rejection-and-not-belonging-...

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  • Your pain, curse, gift, and strength...

  • It depends on about a million factors.

  • It depends on about a million factors.

  • Breaks you. Completely and utterly shatters you. It makes you lose something that you will never get back.

  • I think TCKIDS have very high self-awareness, sometimes to the point of it being too suffocating for us. We know ourselves too well. And a deep desire to connect with another person.

  • My experience was more that of just not really belonging...I think I lost my identity. I had become so good at adapting that I didn't know who I really was inside. I didn't have enough time to develop meaningful relationships, so I felt like an outsider and I didn't understand why I didn't connect with anyone. I'm 28 now, and I've become aware of myself in a way that I don't think a lot of my peers have. I know myself better - what I like, what I need. I think that makes me stronger. 

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  • What doesn't kill us makes us stranger.

  • Hey there nice video.. I am not lying if i say you get used to rejection, in a way its us taking on bigger resposibility to become more wise. After a while you will see that you are always have belonged just that journey made you realize something.

  • it breaks you...every time. but after a while you get wiser...which is something very vital.

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