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[x_lysistrata_x]

I'm tired of people being dismissed. Is it easy to be an ass to a person because they don't always feel the need to be verbal? Just because I don't have a severe case of logorrhea like 99.99995% of the population complete with an inability to listen to anyone else other than my own gum-flapping, doesn't mean I'm a fucking moron

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[mengus]

I'm fairly quiet in person. But the way I look just intimidates people.

[x_lysistrata_x]

I think if I were a guy the intimidation thing might work better for me. I'm sure people think I'm just a weird, moody girl. I think one day I'll have a moment like the trainee in the end of the movie Waiting. The guy who kept getting cut off all day and then finally yells at everyone at the end. Although I don't have the proper equipment to do "The Goat".

[baron_waste]

Once upon a time, I knew a lovely girl - she really was - whose husband was physically abusive. It was frustration - “TALK to me!” She told me what her deal was: She was silent as a houseplant much of the time, because she did not speak until she knew exactly what she wanted to say, and if the time it took for her to assemble her sentence ran into minutes, and killed the conversation, well, c' est la vie. Okay: Knowing that, I had no problem with it. We had long, companionable silences; I was willing to wait. She appreciated that - enough that she'd have left her husband for me, if I'd been more in those days than minimally functional myself.

Y' know, guys appreciate quiet girls - as long as you're not sulking, be as taciturn as you wish. It's the pouty-faced, “Something's wrong but I'm not going to tell you what because you should already know” act that gets infuriating.

[x_lysistrata_x]

I hate when anyone pulls that crap. Nah, when I'm mad, people know and know why. That's the one time I have NO trouble being blunt at all.