technology was my therapist - by nancy zuo
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substituting relationships with bits and bytes
I have a complex relationship with technology. I oscillate between feeling indebted to its power of summoning a free audience online to despising how much it's taken away my ability to live in the moment. For what I lacked in therapy, friends who listened to me, and parental love whilst growing up, I made up with technology. Technology was my therapist when I had no friends in elementary school and found them in virtual worlds like Club Penguin, drilling the iceberg with my fellow comrades in unison, shouting at others to join us in all caps. Technology was my therapist when my parents…
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