#selie

You know in school when you would sit in (IEP) Math class and those two kids across from you were constantly whispering and giggling? Believe me, it was about you. That moment in gym class when the P.E teacher let everyone pick their own teams and you were in the last 3 to get picked? Completely intentional.

If you didn’t have this blog, you could maybe get a nice barista job where people would awkwardly smile at you while you double checked their coffee orders because your brain is too slow to process what an Americano is. I think for the sake of your own sanity and self-respect that is probably your best option.

Go touch grass. A makeover wouldn’t hurt either.

This ask is bizarre because it starts off with a compliment???

Like, thank you, I know I look like Eddie Redmayne, he's the celebrity I am most often compared to and apparently a lot of people think he's like, super hot, so I consider it a HUGE compliment to be compared to him. I'm not sure if you were trying to insult me or not, but it's definitely a compliment.

Yes, I am white. Unfortunately, I really hate to inform you of this fact, but POC trans people exist. Black trans people exist. Asian trans people exist. Hispanic trans people exist. Etc. Being transgender is not "white privilege". Using pronouns isn't "white privilege". Literally every culture around the world has trans people. I'm gonna assume you're white for having such a culturally ignorant take on transness.

And then there's the ableism. Why is transphobia always hand in hand with ableism and hatred of disabled people???

There's no shame in being mentally disabled. Mentally disabled people ROCK. I've worked with disabled folks as one of the many careers I've had in my life, and they are SO AWESOME. Mentally disabled folks deserve respect and dignity, they deserve to live in a world where they can achieve whatever they want with whatever amount of support they need. They don't deserve to be treated like an insult, which is what you're trying to do here.

You absolutely cannot insult me by calling me mentally disabled, because I don't think it's shameful to BE mentally disabled.

As for whether or not I was teased in school: of course I was. Again, you can't hurt me with that, I'm 37, not 15. However, I take solace in the fact that y'all could never come up with anything particularly scarring to call me. One of y'all tried to insult me by calling me a mitochondria. You know, the power house of the cell??

And YOU just tried to insult me by calling me Eddie Redmayne.

Y'all have always been bad at insults. Like, hilariously bad.

I'm gonna stick a selfie on this post because I think I look very trans today and I felt so confident when I went to the pharmacy to pick up more testosterone!