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one of the things that's eased for me is beauty standards something i was aware of in the back of my head that bothered me in high school was it basically felt only smart, pretty, intelligent people were people everyone else... what exactly? i don't know not people https://t.co/gl03wNDQNb
a lot's changed for me. i no longer feel the need to be exceptional. i love myself. i love life but the most jarring part of my experience still is how much residual judgment i feel of people i meet in everyday life. i call it the walmart problem
i think it's easy to think like that when you don't think of yourself as a person. not really you think of yourself as someone that can provide other people things: being intelligent, smart, pretty—envied but being envied isn't being a person https://t.co/Zsv9hCnbw3
i guess i think of myself as inherently worthy of being touched, respected, loved, known because i have a body now and anyone who doesn't think that is just sort of mean? https://t.co/U3jEI73gFx
and it makes me think of other people that way. of course you are worthy of being touched, respected, loved, known i find myself naturally drawn to be friends with a very different-looking and -feeling group of people than before https://t.co/YJEmkWQvxT
mildly curious thing about coming back to university as a graduate student: i feel friends with the students, with teachers, with the admins and employees equally before i don't think i really noticed the employees. they weren't people to me, relevant people