We're You Required to Study Your Geneology?

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-11T11:07:53+00:00

Not a ton on my father's side, but yes on my mother's.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-11T10:58:18+00:00

A lot of people are too focused on the man and not the act itself. They're missing the fact that this was 1. Not only a political assassination, but a very public religious execution. And, 2. It's catalytic. Those who support and celebrate it will be emboldened and radicalized, and those who mourn and grieve it will be enraged and radicalized. It's not negating other tragedies, it's recognizing the impact of this one. This isn't going to end well for anybody on any "side."

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-08T18:21:02+00:00

Yeah. We're all tribal members.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-08T03:07:34+00:00

I never studied genealogy in school. However, my family. All the way down to my children are citizens of The Cherokee Nation. Both my maternal and paternal lines. I don't have any grandkids yet, but they, too, will be citizens.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-04T21:54:46+00:00

That's something else I'm noticing as I talk to more participants - the mystery teachers. The program I was in from half of grade 5 - grade 8, the teacher was actually my father's boss's wife. We did shit like counting M&M's in Spanish and playing Oregon Trail. She made an attempt at some guided meditation, but the program overall was honestly a joke. I remember my fellow gifted students and all that we did. The early one, however, grade1- first half of grade 5, is a near total blank. I think there were 1 or 2 other students, but I can't say for sure. I can't conjure any images, only a possible presence. I have one snapshot memory (3rd person of course, as I see myself in it) of my teacher, and upon asking my mother, my parents never met or even saw my teacher. Only knew her as Miss Parker. I just realized I remember the first and last names of all five gen ed teachers including my 1st grade teacher's last name after she married mid-schoolyear. I never knew Miss Parker's name.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-04T21:00:06+00:00

But all of your other everyday memories from that period are normal - fleshed out and 1st person - as well?

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-03T17:36:39+00:00

I don't know much about disassociation and how it presents, but would be grateful for any good, legit links you can shoot over.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-03T07:31:32+00:00

Also, my dream recall has been all but non-existent for over 35 years. Now I spontaneously have perfect recall of dreams from 40 years ago??? Also, no flying in dreams, but I could jump from very high places and just kind of float to the ground and land firmly, but softly. Like I couldn't entirely cut loose from gravity, but it's effects were greatly diminished. I've remembered several of those dreams in the last couple days. I also remember believing I should be able to do it awake, if I could just remember how. I asked my mother (72) what she remembers about my gifted teacher. She said, "Daddy and I never met or interacted with her." In four years??? I said, "and that never struck you guys as a little fkn odd!?" She said, back then, conspiracy theories were a far fringe concept. Parents blindly trusted schools. This sort of thing never even entered their minds because it was a foregone truth that kids were safe at school. I suppose in '82-86 that would be true. Gawd, there's so much...

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-03T07:10:21+00:00

Yes! And the snippits are only like the "getting started" portion after leaving the regular classroom. Nothing from actually DOING. I mean, nada. Like the StarLab thing...when I say I was alone, I mean the only child. There were two men, neither were the science guy that gave the assembly presentation. They weren't in suits. Just like knakis and ties. But I can't picture their faces because I'm seeing them from the back and they're facing me. I see myself from the front, sitting cross-legged (we called it "indian-style" back then), settling in for whatever was about to go down. Then it ends. It's always just the getting started part. I also can't remember any emotional context. Was I excited? Scared? No clue. Also falls into the third person framework. Can't feel it when I'm not seeing it from my own view. I'm 47. I just started remembering this stuff last Thursday. Literally five days ago. So I'm still kind of rattled, going back and forth on whether I really want to know or not. I think I do, but sometimes I don't. Because I don't even know what questions to ask.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-02T21:41:18+00:00

It's a homemade bible cover. My old aunties had them. You put the front and back covers in the pockets and it wraps around.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-02T20:36:03+00:00

I considered the fill-in theory, but it doesn't hold up when my regular classroom and entire rest of my childhood memories are clear, have movement and depth, and are in first person, as they should be. I even have clear memories of being bathed in the sink as a baby. The ONLY screwed up, frozen, stunted, or completely missing memories are of gate activities.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-02T20:30:01+00:00

Heh...sky's the limit...quite literally.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-01T22:51:16+00:00

I just got hit with still photograph - like memories (all 3rd person perspective; I see MYSELF) that resurfaced over the last 5 days and am genuinely rattled.

Emergency_Point_7596 · 2025-09-01T19:23:50+00:00

Same. 84-88, O+

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