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12:13pm June 24, 2014

Disability paradoxes, sort of

feliscorvus:

Like that thing where it genuinely seems like I get MORE respect, by default, when my hair is dyed bright green (or I’ve got some other visible thing going on that codes ‘non mainstream’).

Anyone else get this?

There was a time when I could pass for “being different on purpose” and it gave me more status than “being different because I couldn’t help it”.  Unfortunately it also came with a big side helping of “Sie would do anything for attention…” which of course was not true.  (But if you hear rumors that rest on some sort of “Sie used to do alllll these weird things to get attention,” that basically comes from the fact that I dressed in weird ways and stuff in a partial attempt to pass as different-on-purpose.)

Notes:
  1. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    People think I’m a quirky hippie.
  2. foreverfalling reblogged this from humainsvolants and added:
    I’ve definitely used an extravagant style as a kind of armor. Being trans and possibly/probably on the autism spectrum i...
  3. humainsvolants reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  4. feliscorvus reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yep, that all sounds familiar too. And I remember being accused of doing some things/dressing in certain ways “to get...
  5. into-the-weeds reblogged this from chavisory and added:
    It was safer for me to be out as gay in my high school than it was for me to have a developmental disability.
  6. chavisory reblogged this from feliscorvus and added:
    YUP.
  7. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from feliscorvus and added:
    There was a time when I could pass for “being different on purpose” and it gave me more status than “being different...