LibraryScenariosHow personal lens can distort intergenerational storytelling
Scenario

How personal lens can distort intergenerational storytelling

My grandmother's stories are disappearing with her memory and I am trying to write them down but I keep making them about me instead.

Mura
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to preserve others' experiences becomes corrupted by the inevitable filter of self-perception.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Personal essay and memoir?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.