I had been having my hair cut by the same woman for maybe 20 years. Early one Saturday morning I came in for a haircut and brought with me my breakfast: a Diet Coke and a package of chocolate mini-donuts. My hair stylist was appalled that I was eating chocolate donuts; she said she thought that I was a health nut, fitness fanatic, etc. There’s nothing farther from the truth, I eat junk all the time.
Over the years, I’ve had many people tell me they thought I was really into fitness and health, and I have no clue where they would get such an idea.
I was in nursing school years ago, and had so many people remark “you don’t strike me as a nurse at ALL!”… and when I worked in a daycare they would say “you don’t strike me as the type to work in a daycare” - even had friends that were sure I’d never have kids, they couldn’t see me being a mother. Evidently I come off as a cold-hearted jokester?
Sadly, I dropped out of nursing school because I never felt I was good enough to do it, perhaps I let others’ view of me shape who I was. I work an office job I can’t stand now. I do have kids however and they are the most wonderful thing in the world!
Me too! A friend told me I always look what I know what I am doing, which I thought was a nice interpretation. Better than my own suspicion, which is that I project a working class vibe.
I get this whenever I travel to a new city - within a day of arriving I am approached by someone asking for directions. They tell me I look like I know where I’m going. It happens everywhere!
I think I have kinda figured this out - once I do know where I’m going, I head there with a purposeful stride.
I am fat, and am very careful about what I eat, and have been careful for most of the past 30 years I have been diabetic.
It would annoy the hell out of me to order lunch where I previously worked, and when we ordered from the middle eastern place, I would get a piece of baklavah. More times I would get the whole 'I thought you were on a diet" crap … firstly, it is nobodies business what I eat, or when i eat it, but I can actually enjoy a small dessert if I plan for it :dubious: I am not on a diet, nor have I ever been on a diet. I control my food so I can control my diabetes.
I find it annoying to be fat, I would love to be not fat … just so I could actually eat in public without either being considered a fat slobby pig for ordering a single dessert, or to have it considered that I am fat because I sit on my ass popping bonbons all day watching soap operas, and I have the temerity to emerge into public and shove food into my face when I should be at home starving myself.
Yes it annoys me too that being fat automatically = stuffs face with junk food. I eat tons of fruits and veggies and eat very healthy. I’m just lazy and don’t like exercise, and I’ve even been exercising a lot for the last two months, but IT TAKES TIME.
Oh yes, this reminds me of when I found out that in high school people thought I thought I was “better than everyone else”. :rolleyes: I was just shy, of course.
Although, actually, I guess I do kind of feel superior to people who are too dumb to realize that shy people are more common than people who won’t talk to people because they think too good for it.
