I was going to get you an online definition but uh, it looks like it's more of a specialized/niche phrase than I thought.
Tape as in tape recordings. Bad as in negative. It's all the bad things people have said to you, about you, bad habits, harmful conditioning and thinking patterns. Even something you started doing yourself that is detrimental. Playing in the background like an audio tape.
A lot of people from rough backgrounds have internalized something or other like that and start saying it to themselves. Recognising it as bad tape - something that someone else said, and you're now repeating - can help separate it from your own self-worth and personal narrative. To know that it's background noise from a bad point in time, and isn't reflective of you now. And recognising it can help a person understand where current issues of theirs come from, and where more might be.
It seemed like Edward Cullen might be something like that for you guys.
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Date: 2023-07-21 04:16 pm (UTC)Tape as in tape recordings. Bad as in negative. It's all the bad things people have said to you, about you, bad habits, harmful conditioning and thinking patterns. Even something you started doing yourself that is detrimental. Playing in the background like an audio tape.
A lot of people from rough backgrounds have internalized something or other like that and start saying it to themselves. Recognising it as bad tape - something that someone else said, and you're now repeating - can help separate it from your own self-worth and personal narrative. To know that it's background noise from a bad point in time, and isn't reflective of you now. And recognising it can help a person understand where current issues of theirs come from, and where more might be.
It seemed like Edward Cullen might be something like that for you guys.
- Reki (he/him)