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Are we allowed to have the authority over our own experiences?

Reading through the article where Stephen Fry is criticised as misleading the community with hist generalised and/or personalised experience of Bi-polar has me doubting that we really do.

If we aren't giving authority over to higher intellectual powers (or the lesser powers which think they hold intellect over us, i.e. haters and trolls - of which I may profess to be at times) then we can at least admit to destroying our own authorities. Be fair, we've all changed our minds at some point, over some topic that holds more value than our favourite colour, haven't we?

How can we therefore proclaim to ever truly hold authority or correctness in what we say then? Context.

As my former Pastor would often say, 'a text without a context is just a con'.