big old fuck you to the asshole who decided that because my self harm marks were visible, he was allowed to intrude into my personal space bubble and comment on them
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Ugh, seriously! I don't understand why people have to say anything about it at all. It's like, okay, you saw them and I see you seeing them, nothing needs to be vocalized and yes, you're an ass if you do.
And of course, *we're* the unreasonable and sensitive ones when we don't react in the way they wanted us to. Which doesn't even make sense because how the hell DO you want someone to react when you point out what are very obviously self harming marks and scars? Do they seriously expect us to actually engage with them and have a nice chat about it?
" I don't think people understand that this was the result of the darkest moments of my life." THIS. It's NOT a happy thing to talk about, and while I'm not ashamed of the marks being on my body, it's certainly not something that I'm going to open up to some fucking stranger about just because they have functional eyeballs and the words fell out of their mouths.
Yeah, it IS embarrassing when people bring it up. It's not embarrassing that we have them, but that people are so fucking tactless as to remark on them.
Good for the bus driver who make the guy move away from you.
There is such a thing as impinging upon one's emotional, psychological, and physical space.
No it was not his business because you were wearing shorts, a bathing suit, naked, or in whatever state of dress you were in.
And standing up and putting his hands out to the side blocking you into the bus seat-- that is way off the hook.
A friend taught me to respond to strangers making irrational comments by saying "Excuse me, what did you say?" after every statement of the stranger. The stranger gives up after several "Excuse me, what did you say?" and end of the irrational comment.
It's one thing to express caring and concern for another human being. Quite another to interject oneself uninvited into another's life.
We are not any of our labels. Fuck you to all the people who think we are.
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And of course, *we're* the unreasonable and sensitive ones when we don't react in the way they wanted us to. Which doesn't even make sense because how the hell DO you want someone to react when you point out what are very obviously self harming marks and scars? Do they seriously expect us to actually engage with them and have a nice chat about it?
It's just so boggling.
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THIS. It's NOT a happy thing to talk about, and while I'm not ashamed of the marks being on my body, it's certainly not something that I'm going to open up to some fucking stranger about just because they have functional eyeballs and the words fell out of their mouths.
Yeah, it IS embarrassing when people bring it up. It's not embarrassing that we have them, but that people are so fucking tactless as to remark on them.
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Oh, I'm sorry, was I supposed to get all riled up and angry over your oh-so biting and callous edginess?
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*hugs*
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Good for the bus driver who make the guy move away from you.
There is such a thing as impinging upon one's emotional, psychological, and physical space.
No it was not his business because you were wearing shorts, a bathing suit, naked, or in whatever state of dress you were in.
And standing up and putting his hands out to the side blocking you into the bus seat-- that is way off the hook.
A friend taught me to respond to strangers making irrational comments by saying "Excuse me, what did you say?" after every statement of the stranger. The stranger gives up after several "Excuse me, what did you say?" and end of the irrational comment.
It's one thing to express caring and concern for another human being. Quite another to interject oneself uninvited into another's life.
We are not any of our labels. Fuck you to all the people who think we are.
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