All I can seem to come up with is, "Uh, sorry. I guess I'm standoffish at first."
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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If you can't be beloved by an asshole, what's the point, right?ETA: DJ, yeah, actually, I'm a private person. Not at all the kind of woman to start chats in the bathroom stall or things like that...some women seem to hate this and call it bitchy but it really is hard for me to let people in my life.
It's the Reflexive Doubt thread, I post on there as lillym and I made a couple posts (most ignored by the commenters) but there's the one person who doubts all authority because it's authority, thinks doctors can't help anyone, and said that antidepressants are "chemical lobotomies".
All I can seem to come up with is, "Uh, sorry. I guess I'm standoffish at first."
"Actually, I'm awesome. But just with cool people. Not the whiny neurotic ones."
Would that help?
Hec, make a shirt of this and I'll buy it.
It's the Reflexive Doubt thread, I post on there as lillym and I made a couple posts (most ignored by the commenters) but there's the one person who doubts all authority because it's authority, thinks doctors can't help anyone, and said that antidepressants are "chemical lobotomies".
When I was going through the break-up of my first marriage, my therapist recommended ADs. I resisted the idea pretty much until I was back in Australia, and part of it was the fear that it'd dull my brain more generally. (Of course, it did nothing of the sort. I've re ently been rereading Bitches from that period, starting dating again and meeting Wallybee and all, and if anything I think it made me slightly manic.)
Heh. Probably not. It's not even that they aren't cool, it's just...I don't know, maybe I'm talking to other people at the time? I still become friends with them, but the inital "Why do you hate me?" and the sheer amount of "No really, I like you just fine!" I have to do, I find baffling.
I've always wondered why some women have called me intimidating or acted like I frightened them. I try not to be overtly threatening to anyone--unless I want to--but there are women who act like they expect me to eat their children and barbecue the dog.
Yep, this is me. Which I find all the more amusing, since I'm this little short woman who can be painfully shy in new situations with strangers.
I'm this little short woman who can be painfully shy in new situations with strangers.
You! Get out of my mirror! Though I think the painfully shy is actually closer to "more than a little hostile that I have to be social with A New Person I Don't Know." My comfort zone, let me show you it and never leave it.
Okay, I admit it. If I don't like you, I don't mind being intimidating. Scaring people I don't like is fun.
However, scaring people I like is not fun and I feel really badly about it when it's brought to my attention.