That's another issue with FPL claims. People see in those past lives exactly what they want to see. They project their own ideals onto them and they buck against a claimant with genuine memories who says "Err...it wasn't exactly like that."
That's why I don't really bother to interact with people about it. I don't feel the need to either anyway, but there was a time that I kept trying to correct the entries in Wikipedia, even using sources and providing references and someone would come by later and just change them back to the popular narrative. I just kind of gave up after that and realized that it wasn't my mission in life to educate the world about me. I'm really more interested in what I can learn about myself as a person and how I can grow from that and if people want to learn about me and they're motivated enough, they can easily find their way here and read what I've written or sign up and ask me questions.
I think what I had going against me though is that the diary most everything is based off of, is essentially fiction, serving as propaganda, that was written under the supervision of the communist government. I actually recently came across a Chinese biography page that was actually very kind towards me and that raised an eyebrow. I don't know if that's a one off, or if attitudes have changed recently. But people don't realize the context the diary was written under, so technically for them anyway, it is the official version.
For me, I haven't talked much about it other than on here and otherwise, people seem to think that you're going to be an exact carbon copy of your past life. I'm not a girl, I'm not Chinese, I'm not Punjabi and so on. And I guarantee too, people would want to know why I'm not involved in politics or something. I've explained here that I was married into it and before that, I inherited it from my dad. I have no desire to go out and get into politics on my own. Not in this life anyway.. lol. It's like that saying.. others have greatness thrust upon them and I tried to make the most out of it. But I'm not the go getter in that sense and I don't think people would understand that either.
Just to brag a little, in a online BBC poll, my past life was voted the world's greatest leader, for his fairness, kindness and inclusiveness. While that's incredibly validating, there's absolutely no way I could live up to that in my current life and he already has superhero, mythological status to his own people.
A computer guy, that's all you are? I should be handing out eye drops, because I can hear them rolling already.
I feel ya man.. for just little bit of humor..