My writing group has been meeting for five years and we've gotten really good at being supportive but terrible at being honest about each other's work. We all know it but no one wants to be the person who breaks the nice dynamic even though the niceness isn't helping anyone grow.
More people experience this than they realize.
The group's emotional safety has become a barrier to the very vulnerability that creative development requires.
“Where Are You with Autism spectrum — lived experience?”
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