Probably one of the most ingrained toxic beliefs is that you must fully understand something to (even provisionally) accept it as true, and this is soooo difficult for people to unlearn
Like, this is at the root of *so many* problems. People not believing victims (in the broadest sense of the term)? People not taking disability accommodations seriously? People not adjusting to other people's cognitive needs?
It seems like all of these can almost always be boiled down to "the listener is unable to accept what they are being told as true, because they do not understand it from their own experience".
