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When you never learned what belonging feels like

I realized yesterday that I have never felt like I belonged anywhere and I think it is because my own family felt like foreign territory from the time I could think.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of early belonging can create a lifelong feeling of being fundamentally displaced, even in welcoming environments.

Ideas that help explain it
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