Do you tell people you blog?

I recently read a post on Forking Mad+ asking: Do you tell people you blog? Let me start from a very Oedipal place: my mother doesn't know. Why? Because she is an anxious person, and she would very likely worry that I could get into trouble in Germany for complaining about it. The answer to what happened when I criticised my homeland will be in a future post (coming soon). Still, do I want to share it with her? I think I do, and I plan to wait until I become a German citizen. I believe her mind will be much more at ease then. Who else haven't I told? I have a few close friends in Turkey, and while they are dealing with so many serious problems there, I worry they might find my complaints about Germany a bit spoiled. There is also another group I haven't told. They believe strongly in the distinction between "champagne socialists*" and "real Turkish leftists," and they sometimes dismiss these issues as "wokeness." Honestly, it feels to me like a way of expressing their own…

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