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11:38pm September 4, 2014

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Even though my hairdressing license is mostly useless due to you know, cannot stand more that 15 minutes thing or lift a hairdryer over my head, one thing remains useless.

Because hairdressing requires you to be friendly to get better tips I was taught beautiful skills like “how to fake eye contact” and I didn’t have to go to a condescending social skills class which sound so fucking awful.

I was taught how to fake eye contact in third grade gifted class and I didn’t understand that not everyone was taught that in elementary school for a very long time

Tags: just stare at their eyebrows and if there’s more than one shift betwen them every few seconds

yeah I figured it wasn’t normal because that isn’t normal school it’s a vocational one.

And yeah exactly, eyebrows or the bridge of the nose. I still had a shitty time with job interviews but I can’t imagine how bad I’d have been without that trick

There was a really long time when I would not look at someone at all.  Not at their eyes, not at their face, not at their body.  I would tell them I was autistic.  And their first response would be, “But you make such good eye contact.” And I’d be like “I didn’t even look at you, let alone make eye contact, where are you dreaming up this eye contact that doesn’t exist!?”