How has (or did) your perception of life and general attitude towards it change from when you were 18-21 to when you were 24-30?

I went through a lot of rapid changes from 18-21.

At 18 i was staunchly anti-feminist mainly based on how i was treated growing up - since i was the oldest i was the most able bodied to help with home maintenance and repairs, there was never any emphasis on "you should do this because you're a girl and we need more girls doing this", my gender was irrelevant. I started off 18 thinking feminism was stupid and unnecessary because people don't discriminate any more, what's the point? But as i got older and experienced people outside my family i realized that holy shit people DO still discriminate, i just had no idea because i was raised in a supportive bubble. I was studying engineering at the time and the amount of times my male classmates, or professors even, treated me like shit or said something derogatory would take more than my two hands to count. By 21 i considered myself a feminist.

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