u/cannibabie

I have significant hearing loss. Everyone in my life knows this. It's something I need quite a lot of accommodation for, so just about everyone I meet learns of this within probably the first 20 or so minutes of meeting me. I'm good at reading lips, but the thing that annoys me is that people will speak to me while facing away from me, looking down at their phone, or they'll just mumble and speak so incoherently that it's impossible to decipher what they're saying. Everyone I know, from family members to strangers, will do this to me and I don't understand why. Even at work, I wear a big ass badge on my shirt that says "HARD OF HEARING" on it. You KNOW I cannot hear you. You KNOW I don't know what you're saying. And if I ask someone to repeat themselves, they keep talking at the same inaudibe-to-the-human-ear volume??? I'll ask again, nothing improves. Again, and suddenly I'M the annoying one. How the fuck does that work? I have a disability that you are fully aware of and you're trying to talk to me but you're refusing to talk to me in a way I can understand. You're the one being annoying. At that point, just don't talk to me. It isn't my fault I can't hear well, and I get sick of being scoffed at, having eyes rolled at me, or being told off for not being able to hear. I don't understand why these people even approach me if they're unwilling to speak clearly, it's like they're trying deliberately to frustrate me.

hello ^_^ i'm a 21 year old woman looking for friends in my age group. I've struggled immensely with a fear of people over the past year and a half, so I'm trying to make friends so I can combat that. my main hobby is reading, but I also like to write, draw, hunt, fish, and lots of other stuff too. I'm from the American south and yes, I do have an incredibly thick accent. Some other stuff about me is I like My Little Pony and all sorts of other cute things, I collect vintage postcards specifically with horses on them, I'm a lesbian, and my guiltiest pleasure is unfortunately Genshin Impact which I apologize profusely for. If you message me please be kind and say something other than "hi" or I'm not gonna know how to respond sorry >_< Thank you!!

Hello! I'm Alaska, I'm a 21 year old cis woman and I have some complicated feelings about gender that I'm not sure how to identify. This post may be quite long so thank you for reading and hearing me out. ^_^

Firstly, I want to point out that in my personal experience, I have always felt separated from my femininity. I want to be feminine and I want to be a woman, but I feel like I've been excluded from womanhood my entire life for different reasons. No matter how I dress or behave, I still feel like I look absolutely ridiculous even trying. I have struggled for a very long time with body dysmorphia and an increasingly strained relationship with food and eating, but even when I look at the roots of those problems they developed because I did not feel feminine enough. I have lots of friends who are men, and even this makes me feel self-conscious and insecure about my femininity. I spend a majority of my day worrying about whether I look and am behaving girly enough, and sometimes I get so stressed out about it that I cry or even refuse to leave my room.

Whenever I see trans women in particular online venting about the dysphoria they feel, I honestly relate a lot to what they're saying. This makes me feel guilty because there is no way for me to truly understand the experience of trans women, but these little individual occurrences I do really resonate with. When I've asked my cis woman friends if they've ever felt this way, they say they haven't and honestly seem kind of weirded out by the feelings I've described to them. I've even spoken to my therapist about it and she didn't know what to say either. This makes me feel really othered and isolated and I guess I'm just looking for some insight on why I feel like this.

A very small victory for me, but there were many many many factors into why I wasn't able to get it done until just now. I've been so embarrassed about not having it at my age and I finally did it ^_^ I feel so much more independent now

Hi very much :p The title speaks for itself I suppose. A few things about me are I love to read books and write stories, and I'm particularly fond of gothic and southern gothic literature. My favorite books are Flowers in the Attic, Frankenstein, and Knockemstiff, if anyone else likes to read c: I'm from the American south and I do have a thick accent and a fondness for country music, which I understand is a wildly unpopular opinion. For my rent-lowering shots: I'm a leftist, I'm a heavy-set woman, and I like cute and girly things. That's all for now I think, I look forward to talking ^_^