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I've had to train myself out of squinting, turning my head and stooping a little to read the text on people's t-shirts at conferences, because awkward.

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Nina Zakharenko

@nnja

· Jul 19, 2021

Hello, please remember this when designing conference t-shirts! It's not just fitted versus straight cuts, but design size and placement matters. twitter.com/saetje/status/…

Paul Bone

@Paul_Bone

Jul 20, 2021

;-) with my eyesight I cannot read most t-shirts. So now it's arkward when I think someone's t-shirt might be funny, they describe it for me. But it turns out it's not funny (to me) and I'm not laughing but they expected a laugh.

(have-YER Candeira) for you for your cousin

@candeira

Jul 20, 2021

Luckily for my neck, it was clear that what I was doing was not ogling, but trying to read. I was still trying to read text from the underside of a breast. No longer.

Paul Bone

@Paul_Bone

Jul 20, 2021

Oops. Generally this is actually something I'm very conscious of. Because it just takes me longer to "see" something, a glance becomes a look, and a look becomes a stare.

Paul Bone

@Paul_Bone

Jul 20, 2021

So I taught myself not to look at people because it could be interpreted as staring. And now I'm worse at eyecontact! And that's even affecting my son, he doesn't make eyecontact much because he copies me.

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Guh, eye contact. I have to *force* myself to make eye contact, as I'm always kind of scared of doing it too much and don't know how much is ok. Especially tricky when dating, and I forget to make enough in order to show interest but not so much to be weird… 😳

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