in which I whined for a second

[thene]

-about my teeth, of all things, because I cannot even go to the dentist like a normal person without having to get back to the kind of reasons why I am bad at being a normal person.

athene1miranda 12:57 pm
if i may whine for a second

Psycho Epic 12:57 pm
sure

athene1miranda 12:59 pm
the biggest deal here is getting a crown on my front tooth which i chipped when i was 16 - they put a temp one on it yesterday and are gonna install a real one in a couple of weeks. back when i chipped it i could have had it fixed FOR FREE but my father decided he didn't have the time to get me to a dentist. he hadn't taken us in years so we'd dropped off the register of the local NHS dentist and they had a waiting list, and he just couldn't be bothered getting it sorted out while i could still get it fixed for free (ie. before I was 18).

Psycho Epic 1:00 pm
...that is incredible D:

athene1miranda 1:00 pm
i've never been especially troubled by it - it's got progressively uglier but has never been painful. it's always sat there stopping me from getting too pretty lol
just, LOL MY LIFE

athene1miranda 1:04 pm
glad to get this over with, oh god do i have a lot else i need to do

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a geek's perspective...

[1000kindsofrain.wordpress.com]

Do you know anybody who's 'good at being a normal person'? I know some who are good at faking it. Some who've made themselves miserable trying to buy into the lie. And plenty who have been so deeply brainwashed that they don't see their own abnormalities. But I'm struggling to think of a normal person.

You win on the parenting, though; mine were never that bad.

win=fail

[thene]

Fair point! I shared a flat with some normal people in my first year at Leeds University, and we never did quite get along. Two of them were fashion students. Fortunately I spent the two years after that housesharing with real human beings who ran PnP groups out of our basement.

I really don't have a lot to complain of in life right now, I just sometimes trip over chunks of total batshit insanity that are left over from life before I left East Lancashire. If nothing else, they remind me that it's okay to take it easy because at least I'm not that mad.

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

:(

also, who even cares about pretending to be normal anymore.

[thene]

YEAH THERE SERIOUSLY ISN'T A WHOLE LOT OF POINT, NO ONE IS EVER FOOLED ANYWAY. /hug

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's kinda what I meant. Also, the so-called normal kids are the ones who made my life hell. Oddly enough though, I've found more acceptance being my usual self--I really suck at communicating irl, and sometimes empathy, so now people just know that about me and don't take it personal when I (unintentionally) say or do something bitchy.

[thene]

They sure are prone to bad cases of Not Getting It. :/ I think I get what you mean about acceptance - I mean, I cheated by immigrating, but at least Americans generally expect me to be a bit weird.