re: How bad can it possibly be? How can someone with their whole life ahead of them

I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to conceive that their way of life, thinking, and seeing the world isn't the same as the 6 billion other people on this planet. People experience life differently, whether it's because of experiences, culture, chemicals in the brain, etc. People from Alabama seem to have a particularly difficult time grasping this.