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Why compliments about bravery can feel like polite rejection

I made something vulnerable and personal and when I shared it people said it was brave but all I heard was that it was weird

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Praise for courage in art can inadvertently communicate that the work itself is too strange or uncomfortable for genuine aesthetic appreciation.

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