• peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    43·
    11 days ago

    I don’t get DMs because no one recognizes me.

    I literally walked into a bar with 14-15 men and women from my graduating class. I recognized and named each one. Not a single one of them recognized me.

    I can blend in with a fed, doctor, magat, retail employee, door sales man.

    For a long time the invisibility was painful.

    But recently I realize, it can have a lot of power too.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      I had the opposite problem. 5 years and a new gender after high school people were recognizing me basically immediately. Like I looked pretty different…

      I’ve come to accept that it’s because I have a large and distinct presence, which is a blessing and a curse.

      If you’re ever interested in developing more presence, try performing the role of yourself. It’s the same as being yourself but you ham it up a bit. Exaggerate the fun bits so the audience in the back can see. I noticed I do that instinctively while trying to learn to blend in.

  • cymor@midwest.socialEnglish
    14·
    11 days ago

    Am I the only one that read DM as Dungeon Master? I thought it was cool that they each discovered the joys of DnD after graduating.

  • mstrk@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 days ago

    Arya is hardly the most weird character in GOT… Probably the most based character in the series.

  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
    12·
    10 days ago

    I solved this problem for life by going to my 10 year reunion (a mostly Mormon town). I only went because I happened to be on a motorcycle trip in the region with a girlfriend, a certified Freaky-Chick™️.

    I had my own bike, but chose to ride on the back of hers to add extra confusion.

    Just to be sure I was not included any more, I loudly proposed we wait at least 25 years for another when the choices presented were 5 or 10 years for the next one.

  • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    I talk to one person from highschool, it’s my current department head, he joined the company about 10 years before me. We’ve joked that this is the closest either of us will ever get to a class reunion.

    The best part is we have a similar sense of humor and give each other shit during every team meeting. This is especially fun when newbies are in the meeting, we take it up a notch just to screw with them. Afterwards we of course let them in on the gag… eventually.

    • odelik@lemmy.today
      15·
      10 days ago

      Becky’s were before Karen.

      “Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt!”

      Thanks Sir Mix-a-Lot.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    11 days ago

    Me who didn’t get into a group chat… 👀

    Btw if you don’t have a phone in school, you basically don’t have friends. This is what society is like these days.

    • BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth
      2·
      10 days ago

      Btw if you don’t have a phone in school, you basically don’t have friends.

      I can vouch for that. It’s true. I’m early Gen-Z (200X) and I didn’t have my own phone until 2012. And I don’t have any contact from my school.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 days ago

    I quit Facebook and changed my name. The only messages from people I knew in high school are old friends texting to catch up from time to time. It’s nice