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Need to rant... |
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By: googily_eyes Date: September 22, 2013, 2:35 am |
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:-[ |
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Feel free to rant or complain and get it off your chest! |
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Re: Need to rant... |
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By: googily_eyes Date: September 22, 2013, 11:06 am |
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After finding my chewed up glasses on the floor (yay German |
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Shepherd. Arg.)... |
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I am now unabashedly eating my feelings. Seriously, brownies |
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are delicious. |
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But I am now wearing taped up glasses and need to spend $500+ on |
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a new pair. Great. I was so upset yesterday that I was crying, |
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nauseous, & threw up. Twice. Yeah. |
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F*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck. |
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Brownies do make me feel a little better though. |
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Re: Need to rant... |
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By: googily_eyes Date: October 17, 2013, 9:08 pm |
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When I got my new glasses, I was excited because my first |
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impression of the new place (no more Kaiser :-( Best glasses |
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ever) was great. For the first time, the person did not make me |
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feel like a freak, did not belittle me, and handled herself |
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greatly. However, when I came in to pick them up, I was greeted |
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by someone else. She immediately laughed at me and did the |
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typical "WOW--I've never seen glasses like this before! WHOA" |
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thing. There were some other things that made my skin crawl |
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too. |
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And another thing I don't like: when other people joke about |
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their vision and it makes you feel awful. Like they say "oh boy |
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I'm blind!!" or "My vision is the worst" or "Wow, you're worse |
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than me!" |
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I know, for the most part, people don't intend on being rude or |
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simply don't know that other people may be sensitive. I myself |
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complain and still know I'm relatively blessed--but I always try |
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to be sensitive to others. In psychology, these little slights |
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are called "micro aggressions." They can be about race, |
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disability, gender, anything. They appear harmless on the |
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surface, but if you get it all the time, it can have an effect. |
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This is why thick skin is born :-/ |
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