Woke Up Tuesday Communication

Understanding everyday communications is an arduous responsibility, especially when intentions are not easy to read. The most popular forms of communication, such as cellphones and social media, disconnect the intimacy in the usual emotions conveyed in normal forms of communicating. In corelation, identity also is affected by the miscommunications of everyday interactions. Psychologist Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” notes the difficulties that dissociated individuals express trying to find their identity through their own narrative sense. In “Selections From Hard to Get”, Leslie Bell shares the interdependent issues in sexual identity that women in their twenties face while growing in the societal realm. Journalist
Simple discussion allows for exchange of thoughts along with affable companionship. Human categorization such as gender and race separate and classify individuals, making it easier to not only presume one’s identity but also damage it. Stout’s patient, Seth, is separated from others due to his dissociation while searching for his identity. Stout explains her patient Seth’s narrative, “then with more emotion in his voice than he was usually able to show, he said ‘It’s so hard, because so much of the time when I’m here, what you’re seeing is not what I’m seeing. I feel like such an imposter’,”(436). Seth gives his full self to Stout through his vulnerability in his conversation with her. His acknowledgement of his identity put emphasis on his relation to Stout as a psychologist but also creates opportunity to discover his cognitive self. Similarly, the role of identity is affected by the categorized “Citadel Men” through their “fourth-class system”. Using the comradery and the traditions of The Citadel, cadets are conformed to a certain identity to strengthen the relations of the males but the system also hinders their perspective of women. Faludi displays the complications of gender among the cadets, “Cadets site a number of
Depending on intimacy, speaking with anyone creates a unique relationship. Opportunely, the relationship can lead to possibilities of caring such as introduction to new people, mutual interests, and just general actions of kindness. As these relational modes of caring continue, the coherence of one’s identity becomes closely adjacent to those modes revealing one’s cognition of self. Women around the age of twenty experience such modes which Bell “describe(s) this time in their lives as one in which they were relatively free from social restrictions and proscriptions on sexuality and relationships”(26). Women are given the freedom to discover their identity during this time all while forming relationships through modes of caring expressible in their unique methods of communicating. It is around this age when women are vulnerable to committing to marriage, as well as when they are most fertile to give birth. Being a woman around this age, Shannon Faulkner, the first female accepted into The Citadel, exemplifies the notions of being free from society's restrictions. She refrains from both being labeled a feminist and from being told what she can and cannot do. Though she was disliked in the academy, Shannon kept a professional yet