As a child, did you ever wish that the big people around you would give you more information about what's going on? I did.
I think Olsson captured this feeling - “Children have to build their world from such incomplete information. Other people make decisions for them, and only fragments of the rationale are ever conveyed. As children we inhabit a world built of incoherent snippets. The process of embellishing and filling the holes is an unconscious one, I think. And perhaps it continues all our lives."
I felt this as a child. "Filling in the holes" is something I find myself trying to do as I look at our family's timeline and stories - trying to understand what happened and why.
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