I’m in a wheelchair. And it feels so dehumanising. Because everyone makes an extra effort to never stare at me. I guess they learnt as kids you don’t stare at disabled people, but it feels like the lesson they internalised is you never look at disabled people. So no one ever looks at me except people I’m talking too. It makes me feel quite invisible.
Except kids. They always stare so mu h. It’s kinda weird.
This is a good point actually. I do look at people in wheelchairs since I would want that also.
And kids, they always stare at me too.
Dont worry, you picked hard mode this time in the game of life. I think it also gives greater rewards at the end.
What rewards and what good does it do if it comes at the end of everything
I think it also gives greater rewards at the end.
Damn. Just damn.
I never though about it but I zone off and end up staring at people more often then most I’m pretty sure but I was taught so repeatedly in childhood that staring at someone with any kind of disabilityis wrong so my eyes just kinda pass over them.
I think the staring is a sign of curiosity. The problem is, our emotionally stunted parents did not teach us how to ask questions and show sympathy which could be a solution to that curiosity.
I remember parents scolding their children for asking “out of pocket” questions about people that embarrassed the parents, and this resulted in them just suppressing their children’s curiosity about other people and their unique life paths.
Who said, she can’t be into goblins?
I had a situation that started kinda like that but after she passed me she laughed out loudly, turned to one of her friends and laughingly said “oh man, that dude has the biggest zit I have ever seen!! Did you see that?? Did you see his face???”
Man.
Dodged a bullet. You don’t want anyone with that kind of personality. Sure, other girls might think that internally, but for her to say it out loud to her friends, while you’re within earshot…she ain’t worth shit.
Dodged a bullet? More like saw a shitty person.
He could have not had the zit, hooked up with her, and found out later in a bad way that she’s a shitty person. Hence he dodged a bullet.
He could have not had the zit, hooked up with her
Knowing me… Nah.
I make it a point to never make eye contact or look in the general direction of people walking the other way near me. But I also feel like if someone was actually into me I would completely miss that, but the chances of anyone being into me are so low anyway.
No, but I have other things to think about like how soon it’s going to be before the dictator ruining the country I live in is going to actually abolish the constitution and debit his brand of fascism to the world. A stranger’s opinion of my physical appearance ranks somewhere down around “tepid hotdog water dumped down the drain” on my list of concerns.
…girl?
absolutely not me_irl
Yeah :/
No but this reminds me of the lyrics to “Sweetie Come Brush Me” by John Holt.
I dont know. I just think those girls probably have it so easy that life is even boring. But my girlfriend told me that its not so easy. They often get disliked by other girls because of the competition.
I feel attacked. Just for this, I’m not stepping out of my cave today!
There is the possibility that they are super into that one guy from Pinback’s other band…
Literally can’t relate. Every girl wants me aside from the ones who don’t. See ya later losers
You have a keyboard and a spell check. This isn’t a pre-T9 phone from 1998.
Spell check that gives you idiotic corrections and no standard on weird behaviours like auto spacing and auto period. So you turn it off and I swear it works in reverse, making correct words wrong so you feel like having it on is the better of two evils.
What keyboard are you using
currently heliboard for fear of google keylogging me, but there was some point around when swype fizzled out that all touch input methods became inexplicably worse on devices new and old.
All swipe typing boards became worse apart from gboard which held out for a little while but even that seems worse now even though iirc the actual gesture file that you can take from google and install in heliboard remains unmodified from before the touch input worsening event. Its just as bad in heliboard.
Regular touch type seems to be worse as well even when making the letters buttons bigger. Regardless of specific keyboard it feels like we have been cursed to get what we type corrected to words that only exist in a dictionary and nobody uses in any english speaking region.
I like my keyboard a lot and the local TTS is a huge positive, but it hates me swearing. Ive added it to my personal dictionary in every space I can think to. But it still corrects fucking to sucking and shit to shot constantly.
