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Aella
@Aella_Girl
it's weird for so many people who don't know you, to have such strong opinions about you, which they voice not to you but to each other, and are opinions you know would probably be different if they hung out with you IRL. It's just a straight-up bizarre sensation.
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@BLUNDERBUSSTED
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@Aella_Girl
if it's any consolation it's not an opinion on you so much as their idea of you based on the filter of your personality you put up through social media generalized but this is the same as what's done irl, just do a different extent, which is why those opinions differ
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@BLUNDERBUSSTED
It feels like a lot of projection, though? Like, I can only offer a narrow slice of who I am online. I try to offer as wide a slice as I can (tons of vulnerable stuff on my blog). And people take the little they see and run really, really far with it.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@DanyWanny
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@BLUNDERBUSSTED
People do need to be more open minded. I used to be utterly morally disgusted by gay people, as I was raised very religious. Luckily I was able to question my moral disgust; I want others to do the same.
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@BLUNDERBUSSTED
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@Aella_Girl
It's rorsharch shit absolutely. It's mostly projection, but people approach you from whatever internal turmoil & associative net they've come preloaded with, so they don't have an option Part of the reason you're relentlessly introspective, I assume, is an attempt to escape this
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