I am short and generally bubbly, so people always assume that I am younger than my actual age (which is wild to me). One time a few years ago, someone came to my door and asked me if my parents were home…my tattoos were highly visible… I said no and wasn’t lying 🤷♀️
When my son was first born, I had to bring something to my husband’s work, and the dad of a client asked who the teenage mother was (It was me, I was 31 lol).
Personality things, I don’t know. I’ll have to ask some people and get back to you!
Sep 25, 2024
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Everyone assumes I'm much younger than I am, so what do I do when I find someone's treating me like a teenager? I lie & tell them I'm 10 years older than I actually am or sometimes that I have a son named Carlitos- this one I use ONLY when the other person starts talking about their own kids- to relate to them ya know? The look on their faces is worth the sin I'm committing & it often earns me respect in an otherwise uncomfy situation.
Sep 19, 2024
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When I was younger I used to have a lot of people thinking I was really scary or standoffish, but I was actually just shy and autistic. I didn’t have many friends at uni and on the last department party I was drunk with people on my course and they were telling me how they thought I was too cool and edgy for them and I was like “I didn’t really have many friends and I mostly sat alone” and they were like we all thought you had cool friends outside of uni and were really sorry. But that is what I get for wearing corsets to lectures and having half my head shaved and then purple hair! more recently and throughout my life people have often seen me as very serious or miserable because they only see my work, and are surprised to know I’m actually a silly goose whose pretty funny on occasion.
Sep 25, 2024
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I'm 23 and teach undergrads. It's bound to happen, I know. I used to feel some type of way about it, but now I don't really mind. My students are really cool.
May 6, 2024
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For some reason this brings me into my parasympathetic nervous system
Mar 28, 2025
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Humans have always danced. It is part of who we are, yet we have been conditioned to be self conscious, to think that we do not move our bodies good enough. Dancing is beyond judgement. Dancing is not a skill, it is our soul moving through our bodies, expressed in movement. Dancing is healing. Dancing is bodily autonomy. Dancing is FUN! Any feeling you are feeling can be moved through with dance yet even alone, you fear looking foolish. Kill the judge in your mind, shut the fuck up, and MOVE 🌊
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FINDING SOMEONE ANNOYING AND IMMEDIATELY REALIZING IT’S BECAUSE THEY REMIND YOU OF YOUR YOUNGER SELF
OH BROTHER THIS GUY actually needs a lot of empathy and understanding
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