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Remember, EM POC only!
How are you all doing? Anything exciting you wanna share? Anything you wanna share that’s not so exciting but rather frustrating instead?
Spill it all here, comrades.
My autistic cousin living in the US tells me that people will see his socially awkward behavior and immediately assume that he just doesn’t speak English. He says he prefers them assuming that over them making fun of him for being autistic.
That was one thing I hated about living in the US. I’m a big introvert and that was apparently enough for people to condescendingly say, “Hablo Ingles? Un poquito?”
Lemme guess, when ye point it out, they’ll act all pearl-clutchy about it, saying “I’m not racist, I have {insert ethnicity} friends”…
Feels bad, man…
Guess it depends where your from because I never got that to my recollection. Of course on the flipside most people from the same background as me always tell me I must be American since I’m so quite, so it cuts both ways.
You’re in nyc, right? It always happened to me in small Upstate New York towns. I’m guessing being in majority white communities will inevitably lead to that at some point.
I’m from Guatemala and have the stereotypical features of being short and brown. So I guess that played a big part as well.
Ah, that makes sense.
Funny thing is I was planning on taking a trip upstate for a few days just because I had wanted to revisit a town or two from when I was touring colleges way back when I was high school.
Honestly that’d be pretty awkward. I have a hard enough time being a quite person as it is, but it’s a bit easier in the city since it’s easier to just blend in and be a part of the background.