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3:53am March 22, 2015
swingshiftsallie asked: In your last selfie you looked a bit like Frida Kahlo! I hope you start feeling better soon!

Thank you!  I don’t know which selfie that is, but any comparison to Frida is a compliment.  (Although I think people see my unibrow and scant facial hair and draw the comparison.  Not that this is a bad way to draw comparisons.)  

The first person who ever told me about Frida Kahlo was a woman at Autreat.  I was hanging around in the children’s program despite being 18 or 19 years old, because I was having trouble with adults and a lot of trouble functioning in general.  Also I’d been in children’s programs most of my life, of various sorts, and I didn’t feel quite adult until I moved out on my own and got SSI, neither of which I’d done yet.  (In fact, at that age, especially just after Autreat when I tried university and failed big-time… I felt like a two-year-old who had somehow been allowed into adult society and didn’t know what to do.)

Anyway one of the adults who was working with the children, took us on a walk around the camp, and she told me I reminded her of Frida Kahlo.  Like most new names, no matter how many times she repeated it I couldn’t understand it.  Anyway, she said she was a Mexican painter with eyebrows like mine, who exaggerated her eyebrows in her painting as a political statement among other things.  Of course Frida Kahlo is so much more than that, but she made me feel good about areas of my anatomy that I had received almost nothing but negative feedback on until then.