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I went into a store and had the guy validate it for me". "He said, 'You're the one.' " "I was in shock for a while and just drove around," Milligan said.
When I was uncertain about my latent queerness and gender identity, witnessing other young people navigate those same issues in an open, honest way was incredibly validating for me.
It also validated for me that I am coming to a greater understanding in the class as a whole".
To have been able to see someone that I could identify with at the time, even a fictional character, would have been so validating for me.
Today that reality was validated for me once again as I joined thousands of mostly young, mostly immigrant protestors on Capitol Hill.
"It's so validating for me when people tell me, 'I related to what you're saying,' especially if they're in a different field," she said in our interview, recalling a friend that had recently introduced her to someone who was a fan.
I'm not looking for anyone to validate that for me.
As we talked about this more and I began to think about it in a different way, I realized that so often I find myself striving for this insatiable "right track," as if there's some place I'm "supposed" to be and some outside authority who can validate it for me.
And there was really nothing validating there for me.
It was, like, the first time anybody validated that for me".
That is what validates it for me.
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