Ok. Time out for a little shameless self-reward!

[chantphantom]

Ok. I got my other essay done today! Admittedly I should have gotten it done ages ago, and then I wouldn't have still had it hanging over me or been late for class because I was scrambling to get the citations put in. But still, it's done! So, in honour of the occasion, here's the first of that writing I told you guys I'd start posting way back

Comments

[dracschick]

Congrats on finishing the essay!

[my_daroga]

Very interesting. I struggled with stuff like that, too. And though it sounds like a cliche, after someone told me that if I wanted friends I had to make compromises and like some of the same stuff as them, I realized I didn't *want* to compromise if it meant being into things I wasn't. After that, I've embraced my semi-hermitage but found others willing to share it, too.

I assume you haven't seen the episode of Buffy where Clea Duvall turns invisible?

Yay! Feedback!

[chantphantom]

Glad you enjoyed the story. Yeh, the whole not being willing to fake being into things I wasn't into was part of it for me too. Plus I think that a lot of the kwerks I'd developed in the Blind culture of my former school just didn't make sense to my sighted peers, although of course they made perfect sense to me.

I think I've heard of that Buffy episode, but I don't think I've seen it. Sounds interesting though. Is it a similar idea?

Re: Yay! Feedback!

[my_daroga]

I imagine that moving between the two cultures (or the culture and subculture) would be confusing, especially as it appears that you are not confined to just one of them. And for sighted people (like hearing people, or anything else where a member of a majority is interacting with a member of a minority) there is always going to be this element of doubt: Am I being sensitive? Does this person need/want me to be sensitive? Can we even talk about this?

The Buffy episode (which was first season, I think) dealt with a girl who was "invisible" to her peers for so long that she became invisible in fact. She "haunted" the school and the people who'd ignored her. She eventually gets recruited as a government operative!