I Return!

[tingirl]

From the wilds of Houston, I return, exhausted and mentally cleaned out and gloating double time about my awesome dollar store scarves! Which I was told repeatedly people had bought elsewhere for 20-30 bucks. Bwaahaaha SCORE

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[tingirl]

Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about! I don't consider staring/being stared at/being treated as unusual to be rude or upsetting, as long as it's, you know, friendly staring. But I know many people get totally freaked out by it. I feel like, if I'm going to bother getting dressed and leaving the house in the morning, people dang well *better* give me some attention. (Cash and prizes would be even better, but we can start with attention.) And of course even for shy people, being totally ignored is rude too.

So I never know, when people are talking about encountering difficulty for being AB-normal, if they really are being treated rudely, or just have really low public interaction thresholds, and don't like any attention at all for their awesome outfits/hair/whatever.
(What exactly is your body doing to you these days? I forget. I have so many friends with health failure...)

(and I always always sketch first. I am nearly artNinja enought to skip that step. Why do you think I have so many WIP Wednesdays and such, for so little finished product? Besides lack of focus?)

[merigreenleaf]

LOL! I love your "cash and prizes" comment. ;) I guess I shouldn't mind attention, but it just doesn't mesh well with anxiety. I'm hoping when I feel better, I'll be about to be more outgoing. I miss wearing cat ears randomly. I don't even do my occasional goth clothing anymore because I don't have the energy to bother breaking out that wardrobe (not that I'd have anywhere to keep it, anyway- it's all in bags in the basement since I only have half a closet because I have to share it with my grandmother. Her apartment room downstairs only has a tiny wardrobe). Right now I just get by looking vaguely elven in greens and browns and some leafy and feathered accessories.

I'm not sure how it is with healthy people, though- why would they mind what people think? I guess people just have a tendency to be self-conscious.

I'm still going through the stupid SSRI withdrawal. Fun times, let me tell ya.

Touche- I forgot that you do a lot of WIP posts. :)