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nurseangela
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24 Jun 2016, 1:41 pm

Dreamsea wrote:
Another thing I don't understand is how do people continuing interacting with others that they know are talking about them behind their backs? I have a very hard time doing this. This appears to be another social rule for women. Women laugh and talk with other women then go behind their backs and talk badly about them.

Once I find out someone is talking about me behind my back I feel disgust towards that person because I haven't said anything bad about them behind their backs. So I don't think it's fair. I have a hard time even saying hi to them. I stop socializing with them because I feel awkward around them and don't want to give them more bad things to say about me behind my back.

I feel disgust towards the one nurse that started the rumor about my looks. She is unaware that I know it's her though. One day after the incident she said hi to me and I kept walking, didn't even attempt eye contact, and mumbled hi. I feel so much disgust towards this woman. She's well liked too. This confuses me. How is someone that starts gossip and talks about others well liked? I've noticed she's stopped saying hi to me which is great.

I think you can tell someone's social standing based on how much bad gossip is being spread about them. My social standing is low. I'm an outcast and misfit so someone like myself tends to always have bad things being said about us behind our backs.


Aspies talk a lot about how they have to "act" to be normal, this is a prime example of how NT's have to "act" to be normal. There is this one woman at work who I swear has it out for me from the beginning and I don't know why exactly, but I have found this out through gossip. Now that I know that she can't be trusted, I still have things that I need her for - especially at work (not as much now since she changed to day shift) in case I need help with my patients. I don't go out of my way to be friendly, but I have to carry on a "working relationship" with her and be cordial. Nursing is all about being a team player. Now I'm going to go behind her back and say something about her that isn't very nice - SHE SUCKS AT GIVING END OF SHIFT REPORT!! :mrgreen:

Also as a sidenote, now that I know she gossips about me, then that gives me free reign to gossip about her and not feel guilty. I can't resist so here goes - she just got married recently and put a picture up on her locker of her and her new "Hunny". Everyone was laughing one day because they said he looked just like her brother! So I had to see this for myself and Holy Moses! HE LOOKS LIKE HE COULD BE HER BROTHER! 8O Lord help us. That rumor was sure true.


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18 Aug 2016, 3:13 am

I understand there can be a pressure to enhance your physical appearance in order to fit in but the trick is that most people only care about themselves and their own problems. They usually don't care that much about your appearance (unless they want to project their insecurities at you, which is pretty sad on their part). If you want to 'look good' then you need to do it for yourself first and foremost.

That being said, looking "good" can be important in your professional life so it is important to keep that in mind as well. I sometimes watch make up tutorials and read articles about body types and what clothes tend to look best on them. However I just don't have the energy or the f***s to give about how I look most of the time.



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19 Aug 2016, 12:46 pm

I like to just be as I am. Not trying to look better og different. I don´t wear makeup. I just am as I am.



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01 Oct 2016, 8:37 am

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; that being said, if you don't think you look good, chances are that you probably don't.