For as long as I can remember I have had a completely
unfounded fear of midgets. Er, uh,
little people. Sorry. But you know what??? Now that I type that out, it kind of pisses
me off that they claimed the term “little people” for their culture! Just like the frigging gays, stealing
rainbows as their “mascot.” I LOOOOVE
rainbow accents in clothing items etc. I
used to have rainbow shoelaces, rainbow this, rainbow that and then those pole
smoking asshats went and claimed THE RAINBOW and my mother promptly put a stop
to my wearing anything of the sort. And
now I’m an adult and I’d just look stupid dressing up in any rainbow stuff. Fucking shit.
Well ok, maybe not in this. Chicka-bow-wow-wow-wow! |
AAAAHHHHH I WANT ONE SO BAD!!!! |
Can someone please explain to me what the FRIG this girl is supposed to be?! Is this one of those weird anime porn things??? |
For sure, what I would look like if I tried to pull off a rainbow themed look. |
Anyway back to midgets, yeah, cause fuck it, the term little
people is offending ME, mainly because part of my family has tiny short
delicate people in it which we’ve always called “little” and screw those halfie
bastards if they think they’re going to take it away from me. Ok, for all intents and purposes I’m going to
go with the term dwarf/dwarves for the rest of this.
I’ve tried to get over my fear, and I’m actually much better
than I used to be. I’ve forced myself to
watch various reality shows to make myself gain acceptance of how much harder
it is for them in life. I’ve also
watched many documentaries showing just how badly they were exploited back in
the days when circuses and stuff were big and my heart really breaks for those
people who were condemned by society to earn a living by making a spectacle of
themselves; suffering abuse from people who didn’t know them.
And then of course there have been “forced acceptance
incidents.” Like when I had my one and
only real wedding and guess what happened to be going on at the hotel we stayed
at as well that weekend? If you guessed
THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF AMERICA CONVENTION, you’d be right. And back then I wasn’t forcing myself to go
through acceptance exercises to get over my phobia. I just stood there in the expansive marble
lobby, in my wedding dress with my Groom who was grinning in delight and
muffling laughter at the look of shocked horror on my face. They were EVERYWHERE – and that night was the
night of their dance/ball event so they were all sparkly and dressed up
too. And then there was the time I was
managing apartments and A DWARF RENTED THERE.
Which was fine because after signing the lease, I thought I wouldn’t have
much contact with him but no, he proceeded to be a fixture in the office, asked
to use my computer once *convulse* OHMYGODHESATINMYOFFICECHAIRANDUSEDMYKEYBOARD
and came to many property events.
But I think I’ve narrowed down my phobia and can now recognize that I’m fine with dwarves in everyday life, you know, normal people holding normal jobs and NOT dressing up as things that childrens' nightmares are made of.
HORRIFYING |
For a kid's imagination to process this. . . NOT a good outcome. |
I really hope I don’t have night terrors tonight.