This Is Why It Is Never Just a Word
Understanding the significance of words as we mature
By the age of five, the connections between your mind and voice will share a vocabulary of around 2000 words. Remarkably, you will be able to communicate and understand over 20,000 expressions. Each with their different sounds and meaning, some you comprehend, some you don’t.
Because of home, school and hanging out with your friends. At age ten, those words have multiplied. Some of the statements you know, you can broadcast in adult company, some out of self-preservation you just don’t.
At this young age, you are beginning to figure out the power of words beyond their purpose. Heck, you have probably invented a few of your own.
At ten if you are a Person of Colour, you are left with the residue of the words used to paint you with racial slurs.
For as much as you try to blend in, someone will remove your camouflage while exposing their oh so precious views!
Leaving you no longer concealed in a system, against all the odds, you thought you could win.
And when you are a young girl or boy or maybe undecided, you will already be navigating the subtle oppression nudging you towards the gender role which one day you may decide to play. It is a game to…
