Out of both genuine curiosity, and the possibility that it might inspire you to think along paths you might not otherwise do...
If I didn't have to spend all this effort insisting against all odds on being myself-- if I could just live in a world where people like me were the norm, or at very least widely accepted...
Why do you feel the latter is required for the former?
Is it not possible to simply be yourself, without spending effort insisting on it, even if people like you aren't the norm?
Personally I think people who are the norm are generally somewhere between boring and annoying, so I for one am glad you're not like that. But then, I'm pretty abnorm myself.
(There are other elements of this post to which I am inclined to reply, but I need to take more time thinking about how and whether to say what I want to say, before doing so here.)
(Oh, except, regarding "you really can have a relationship in which the woman is taller than the man" -- well, duh, says the short guy. Of all the things that have prevented me from having relationships, or that I thought might prevent me from having relationships, I don't think that's ever been one of them.)
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branchandroot
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Date: 2009-08-12 01:44 pm (UTC)If I didn't have to spend all this effort insisting against all odds on being myself-- if I could just live in a world where people like me were the norm, or at very least widely accepted...
Why do you feel the latter is required for the former?
Is it not possible to simply be yourself, without spending effort insisting on it, even if people like you aren't the norm?
Personally I think people who are the norm are generally somewhere between boring and annoying, so I for one am glad you're not like that. But then, I'm pretty abnorm myself.
(There are other elements of this post to which I am inclined to reply, but I need to take more time thinking about how and whether to say what I want to say, before doing so here.)
(Oh, except, regarding "you really can have a relationship in which the woman is taller than the man" -- well, duh, says the short guy. Of all the things that have prevented me from having relationships, or that I thought might prevent me from having relationships, I don't think that's ever been one of them.)