I'm shorter than average, I'm thinner than average, my waistline is concave and people call me "tiny". There is no fucking reality in which an XL shirt should be too small, and yet,, in the hell reality where fabricating perceived flaws is a good thing,,, my thighs don't squeeze into the largest pant size in the store ♡
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Went to the home improvement store yesterday because the wall I'd been painting got fucked up with bad paint. Was a more entertaining trip than my poor exhausted, heat addled brain expected.
So I ring for the paint area staffer, and wait. After a minute, she comes by, lugging three gallon cans of paint and looking harried.
"Is what you need simple?" she asks, trying to plan out her time.
"No," I say. "Not at all."
One of the kids flanking me snorts quietly.
Probably repressing the desire to sigh deeply, she asks for a minute to wrap up her current task, which of course is fine. Then we look at my paint and my photos of the bunged-up wall, and she arranges a refund, and we move on to the fixing what's already there part of the problem.
Sheet rock mesh, she says, and points it out. I reach for it, touch the surface, and immediately recoil with a noise of disgust. And this is where things diverge from expectation. I'd usually expect the associate to laugh it off or ignore it. But she's like, "Yeah, it's nasty. Got a bit of that sensory problem myself. Sandpaper, chalk boards..."
"Oh yeah!" I say, delighted to be seen. "My daughter and me both." My daughter gingerly pokes the mesh and shudders.
"I think it's because I'm a bit into the spectrum," she says.
"Sure, totally! ADHD on my end. Lot of overlap."
She nods, and shows me the grippy thing that will let me touch the atrociously aggressive sandpaper less.
We part ways, and I think about how two middle-aged people in a Lowe's can casually discuss their neurodivergence.
The sandpaper works. If the new paint does, too, we'll call that a total win.
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"Can I be your friend too?"
idk. can you?? how toxic and messy can you be?? what's you opinion on threesomes??? would you get lasik for your bf? would you sleep with your friend's bf? how good is your phone camera??? would you kiss boeing? (it's actually non-negotiable, they all have. well cheum is lesbian. and they kicked out nick for that reason)
you tell me, can you???
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Footloose is a present-day documentary.
Let the girl dance.
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do you have to read about your culture and ancestors from documents by colonizers through 14 layers of prejudice, ignorance, and general muddling or are you lucky
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