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The advice Dylan Farrow would give to her younger self

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The advice Dylan Farrow would give to her younger self


we actually have a question from the audience now, who would like to know, what advice would you give to your younger self? Who's, wow. I mean, I feel like there are, I feel like I have a bunch of younger selves and I guess it would depend on whether you're talking about, you know, seven year old Dylan or 14 year old Dylan or 19 year old Dylan or 24 year old Dylan, I think, you know, looking back on my life, I was very focused on what people think of me and that sort of drove me to um not be as authentic in myself, in my skin and in my life as I would have liked to have been. Um and this is just speaking from like a personal level. Um, I don't know, the question is a little vague. I'm not sure if they mean in the context of like how I examine my abuse, how I examine, you know, you can pick my life in general, I think, yeah, I think, you know, just in general, it's okay. I would encourage my younger self uh, to be brazenly authentic