Growing Up in a Marginal Religion and Rejecting Thought Control

• 55:53Tim says his commitment to articulating his truth isn't noble—it's compulsive, stemming from long-standing mental problems.
• 56:14He felt obligated to shape his circumstances of birth into something people would enjoy for reasons beyond where he came from.
• 56:46The term POC is so empty and dignified-sounding it's basically a system designed to help people avoid uncomfortable conversations.
• 57:11Tim predicts POC will become a word that gets you fired in 15 years, the same way other terms were abandoned once people figured out what they really meant.
• 57:52Modern gatekeepers figured out a new way to get an A by making a horrible system that attracts desperate creatures willing to comply.
• 58:21In the 90s there was a school of thought about individuality—sayings like if he jumped off a bridge would you, marching to your own drum—that's now been completely rejected.
• 58:40Tim grew up in a marginal religion where they wanted to be marginalized on purpose because they had the truth and everyone else was wrong.
• 58:59He doesn't have that kind of confidence anymore; if he's wrong, he's fine with being corrected.
• 59:13Tim has a pathological issue with thought control or anyone saying this is all there is to it, especially with threats of disfellowshipping for non-compliance.
• 59:25It's not courage that drives his rejection—it's spite.

Temple Grandin