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CrowFairy:
Uh, this is pretty straight-forward. Just list and/or discuss things that people assume about you before they've even really gotten to know you. It can be from just the way you look or the first conversation you had with them or whatever.

I'll start. :)

For some reason, quite a few people have assumed I'm a lesbian when they met me. I'm honestly not sure why. One of my friends eventually confessed that's what he thought because I had been talking about how much I like being outside (I guess I didn't mention how conditional that love is :P). And then when I hugged my friends (who happened to be girls), it was almost solidified.... until I also gave him a hug. I'm not sure how that magically makes me not a lesbian (nor am I certain as to how liking the outdoors meant that I was a lesbian), but he hasn't thought it since then. I've never thought that I give off any air of any sort of sexuality toward anyone, so this one confuses me. I don't know how one would determine someone's sexuality without them outright saying it, so maybe that's just me.

People also assume I'm a lot younger than I actually am. At age 17: (click to show/hide)Please read the following sentence in literally the most condescending voice you can possibly imagine: "You're a smart little girl, aren't you?" I almost said, "Yes, that's why I'm in the National Honor Society and the Beta Club. :angel:" I simply took a deep breath and thanked her. Le sigh. I believe it was also that year that a lady in a bookstore said I looked like I was the same age as her daughter and wondered if I had any recommendations for her. I asked what she was studying in school. Mythology, of course. Which is primarily middle-school territory where I'm from. I pointed out a few books that she might appreciate and kept my mouth shut about my age.
And also that I'm flirting with them just because I'm being nice (because I'm friendly with everyone).

Another thing that people assume is that I'm well-adjusted, and I think everyone here knows I'm not. :psyduck:

And people also assume I won't get mad at them or call them out when they're being stupid and/or spiteful. (click to show/hide)If you say that you "are so OCD," then yeah, I'm going to say something about it. I was pretty subtle recently when a girl said that one of the three words she'd use to describe herself is "OCD," and I said, "Yeah, I have OCD, so I get that." The look on her face was priceless. :evil: She recovered rather well. :P

A few months ago, I ended up standing up to a guy I'd met like twice who was bullying one of my friends. He was pretty surprised when I spoke out against him when no one else was.
Something else people tend to assume about me is what I like. For example, I'm still trying to figure out why this one guy in high school (chemistry class) was so certain I liked the Backstreet Boys. All I said was that I knew the words to a Backstreet Boys song that was on "Don't Forget the Lyrics." And he said, "Well, duh, of course you did." I didn't even really listen to any boy bands until I was in high school (and even then, it was--and is--mostly the Beatles), and it certainly wasn't anything I'd felt like divulging to anyone. :? That one's always made me wonder, you know?


So what kinds of things do people assume about you when you meet them?

de_la_Nae:
Well outside of the obvious sir/ma'am issues that I've rambled about elsewhere...

More than a few people sort of assume I like men, sexually, and not women.  Er, hold on, let me look this up...ah here, we go, an androsexual. (a lovely little term a local Kinkster taught me). I think there must be some sort of stereotype playing into this but I'm not really well-equipped to unpackage it and figure it out. I *do* like some men, they can be quite cute and handsome and hunksterrific! But not many.

Also I guess I'm a big, tall lady, in addition to being chunky, and I guess I don't really smile a whole lot? Some people tell me I can be intimidating, especially if you don't know me. Which to me is crazy, partially because I've met me; I'm pretty harmless and (I like to think pleasantly) frivolous most of the time. Though also probably for the reason David Wong mentions in one of his latest essays, "The trouble with us less-than-social types is that we assume we're never the person in power, in any situation." Anyway it's useful for walking through troublesome places and neighborhoods in Bloomington (though it's just freakin' Bloomington, I should probably put quotation marks around that) without getting overtly hassled, not so much for some social interactions.

I'm sure I'll think of more later, but I've gotta run real quick.

dr. nervioso:
Wait a minute de_la_nae, you live in Bloomington? Oh my god, we must talk about it! I love that place! Or rather specific areas of that place.


Ummmm assumptions...
People assume I am really intelligent since I am a microbiology major, which I am not really all that smart. I'm pretty clueless in some areas like physics, math, and writing.

de_la_Nae:
Fufufufufu...I told you in the meetup thread we lived near each other, you doink! Just because I saw you mention living in this lovely, awful state another time.

Also I laugh, because as part of my Respiratory Therapy degree I'm in a basic Microbiology class right now. Well, this semester I mean.

Edit: Oh God, tell me you're not Dr. Mosley. I would laugh lovingly for at least half an hour if you were.

dr. nervioso:
I knew you lived in indiana, but I didn't think you'd live in one of my favorite towns there

Also, who is this Mosley person, one of your professors or an evil genius or something else?

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