Thank you for saying this so well. I've never really been able to explain to a lot of the people in my life that daily calculus that Which way is it most important to be comfortable today -- in my identity, or in my safety?
I spend a lot of time in jeans and a baggy t-shirt because it is the nothing place in between, which isn't happymaking, but when they are dismissing me because I dress like a shlubby geek, they aren't catching what I'm really hiding.
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I spend a lot of time in jeans and a baggy t-shirt because it is the nothing place in between, which isn't happymaking, but when they are dismissing me because I dress like a shlubby geek, they aren't catching what I'm really hiding.