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Things People Assume About You
de_la_Nae:
Just my instructor. I figured you *probably* weren't, but it was such a sitcom-style thing I had to be sure!
Welu:
People assume I'm lazy because I'm overweight. I usually tell them I do in fact exercise but I'm still lazy for other reasons.
People also tend to be surprised if it comes up that I'm interested in photography, drawing, writing, film-making, generally anything creative production related. I'm not sure why but once I was told, "You never talk about doing it!"
Not so much any more but on the internet it was almost always assumed I was a male in their mid-20s.
--- Quote from: LoliBot on 04 Feb 2013, 17:47 ---And also that I'm flirting with them just because I'm being nice (because I'm friendly with everyone).
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I get this once in a while, almost always immediately followed with people thinking I'm a prude or promiscuous (or sometimes both somehow) because I say I was just being polite.
lepetitfromage:
The only thing I ever really get consistently is "creative". I can't quite argue with that lol
I've always had a lot of fun playing around with my wardrobe and it's amusing to me the assumptions that come with that. Most of them are right, but I think mainly because I was dressing to suit my current mindset.
I used to dress like a Spice Girl gone goth in high school= people just thought I was weird.
Then did the girl in little boy's clothing in college (i was bordering on hipsterland and dating Peter Pan....so it kinda worked). I always got "fun". Which isn't a stretch because in college I went a little.....overboard.
Then I went granny chic. I used to get the whole "prim and proper" thing which was kind of amusing because it was the farthest from the truth. I was a HUGE stoner and partied pretty regularly.
That was followed by 60s influenced flowing hippie clothes. You can guess what was assumed. It was pretty much true.
Then "I am depressed and angry and I hate everything and therefore will only wear jeans and tank tops because I can't be bothered to care about how i look or even do laundry for that matter". I really never paid attention to what people assumed because I couldn't really be bothered to care about that either. That was not a fun time. :-(
Now, I'm kind of doing a vintage with a twist thing. Cutesy florals and lace with ripped jeans, motorcycle jackets and bizzaro jewelry. I'm consistently getting "unique" and "interesting". I'm ok with that.
Only other thing I notice people assuming about me is that I want to talk to them even if I don't know them. I smile regularly at passerby just because I think it's a nice thing to do if we make eye contact. Most of the time, this is fine. But on a regular basis I'll get people who start up conversations telling me about their whole lives in a span of 15 minutes. In the last 6 months, I had a guy come up to me in the grocery store start complaining about his phone company, another dude who decided that I invited him under my umbrella when it was raining (and told me so), a lady that came up to me in the grocery store to chat about coupons (she was actually fun to talk to) and countless others before them. When I lived in the city, I was on the subway heading out for the night, dressed up fancy and listening to my iPod. An older gentleman using a cane was standing next to my seat, getting ready to leave the train and started slamming his cane on the floor and yelling to me "I know you can hear me!! Why won't you listen?!?!"
Then there was the guy who I noticed jacking off across from me on the subway (I dozed off and woke up to that. tons o fun), the drunk lady that made small talk with me on St. Patrick's day when I was taking the train home to my parents' house, the bus driver that constantly made conversation with me over the course of 3 months and then asked me on a date.......the list goes on. My best friend calls me a weirdo magnet. One good thing did come from being approached constantly by random strangers though.....I met my friend Katie. I believe that I've spoken about her in other threads but it's a long and sad story so if I haven't I'll save it for another day.
Zingoleb:
People always assume I'm okay.
cesium133:
I went to a Catholic college, and there was a certain group of students there we referred to as the "God Squad" -- the ones who went to church for every single service, and tended to only hang out with similar people. When they met me freshman year, they for some reason wanted to hang out with me, even though I never went to church. Only later did I find out it was because they assumed I was Jewish (I'm guessing because I never went to church, and I tend to use a few Yiddish-like phrases in my speech, a habit I picked up from my also-not-Jewish mom) and they were trying to convert me. :psyduck: When they found out I was an ordinary heathen they gave up, and most of them never so much as spoke to me again.
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