Well uh, let me put it this way: at 12 (over two decades ago) I would have been considered alt-right (though I didn't want to be, exactly, I just thought everyone was generally like that and that if I was to be considered human then I had to do and say and believe the same).... because of the people who were raising me, mostly.
But now I'm part of the anarchic left. For example I am pro-choice, LGBT+, aggressively boundary-enforcing (if someone wants to be called a certain name for example I will correct others who misname them on purpose lol), and I'm not afraid to do mildly illegal things if necessary. For example it's illegal to 'steal', but I'm pretty sure nobody will chase me down and arrest me for taking five 'complimentary mints' so I can pass them on to people who need cheering up. I also do stuff like glue googly eyes on the undersides of public bunk beds, to cheer up the people who are forced to sleep there (who probably need the cheering up to keep going). Did that once in Sweden, used a sharpie to form a mouth, and that face is probably still there today.
I'm no longer afraid to jump in front of others to defend them if they're being attacked (have done that multiple times now), not afraid to ride my motorcycle through snow storms (done THAT multiple winters, I miss my biiiiiike lol), not afraid to be without a house. At 12 I was convinced the worst thing would be a cage, but I never considered living in a bad place a cage since that's all I knew. Now I know... a bad house is as good as a cage, and to truly be free, leaving may be your best option. Even if it's hard at first, you can't get to a better place to live without first giving up the bad place. That's why I'm much braver in many small ways.
However, I still hate spiders. FUCK spiders. Ew.
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