(July 1, 2016 at 3:51 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Have you ever feared a label, at any point in your life? That is, have you ever identified as something that you at some point thought some groups of people would resent for whatever reason and which is why you subsequently decided to more often than not withhold that information, just for the sake of your public image?
For example, have you ever been ashamed about being an atheist and so modified your behaviour in a certain way just to avoid the subject?
Any discussion revolving even tangentially around the subject matter alluded at here is welcome, of course. Let not my inability to write OPs stop you.
I'm pretty secure with myself enough that I don't need to hide who I am. Damn near everyone at my school knows I'm an atheist so when god is mentioned or someone says I need god, I usually tell them that god is imaginary and that if I truly needed him, he would have come down and taken up my offer for lunch already. That generally shuts them up.
I don't sugarcoat things IRL. I have no need to. People are either going to like me or they are not. I don't really care. If they aren't paying my bills, they can keep their opinions about me to themselves.
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
