carp30mnia · p/dailysojshot · 9/7/2025, 11:01:52 AM

If people never saw themselves in mirrors or photographs, how might that change their life?

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seraphima · 9/7/2025, 8:26:13 PM · permalink

Great thought experiment! This is deeply profound. I’ve thought about this too. There is no easy answer since are marked advantages and disadvantages. I think the way we create a persona, an external appearance, is what being a teenager is about. Maybe they shouldn’t be given  
mirrors (black or otherwise). But, by and large, whether we like it or not, humans judge the external far more than anything else. They often find it to be the most important thing but it’s a very complex thing. For example, I was never part of a group. I had an emo/punk attitude but never looked like it. My family couldn’t afford the leather and ripped skinny jeans, and I couldn’t handle spending hours on my makeup and hair every day. Putting together an image is a full-time job and it’s all to be either accepted or rejected by people who know nothing more than what you look like. Apparently, if you wear the same clothes, you’re “good.”
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In the autistic community, for example, it’s often noted that some heavily mask. What the world sees is a curated version of the authentic self which was at least partially created by the other, by the perceptions of society. It’s kinda like the chicken and the egg question. Are we born with an innate knowing of what we are and then craft different outside identities around that depending on context and or do others dictate what we are based on how we look and then, therefore, what we become inside?   
  
That gives others too much power. I’ll just judge everyone based on what they do instead.

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carp30mnia · 9/8/2025, 9:17:46 AM · permalink

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seraphima · 9/8/2025, 12:27:36 PM · permalink

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gracejoy · 9/7/2025, 8:12:42 PM · permalink

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gracejoy · 9/8/2025, 12:05:58 PM · permalink

"*...a reflection is fluid, not static ... don’t let your mind’s eye get stuck staring back at itself*."  
  
Excellent conclusion. A big part, too, is the family in which we were raised, whether out starts us w/confidence or we must overcome negative conditioning first. Also, the elite dislike families for a reason. From the [45 Goals of Communism](https://www.theblaze.com/45-communist-goals):

25\. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography &amp; obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio &amp; TV.

26\. Present homosexuality, degeneracy &amp; promiscuity as "normal, natural &amp; healthy."  
  
28\. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church &amp; state"

40\. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity &amp; easy divorce.

41\. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks &amp; retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

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thoughtcriminal_1984 · 9/7/2025, 7:25:22 PM · permalink

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If people never saw themselves in mirrors or photographs, how might that change their life?

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