@star2000shadow: You're avatar looks nice. This week was super busy, but at least I have a few days to rest now. How has this week treated you so far?

@star2000shadow: I'm tired, but good, and lacking surgery action. I hurt a bit from loosing my eye cover, but hopefully I'll find it soon.

@star2000shadow: Report to who? It's not prescribed to me, there's not a lot out there for those with photophobia who don't fall under the most common types. It was bought for me by a friend. The closest to help a professional I've gotten was being told they refuse to test my eyes because they don't see the point.

@star2000shadow: I wish I was kidding. I recall in high school, I once told a counselor that I wasn't glaring- I was in pain. She was someone who should have had some amount of basic training to understand how minds work in order for the school to let her counsel kids, right? She should have been able to understand that back then I was forcing my eyes to look as normal as I could at my own expense and pain whenever I could to try to feel more normal. Doing this caused more blinking and eye watering because honestly it likely wasn't healthy. Her reaction when I told her I wasn't glaring though? She called me a liar and said I had social issues. There were multiple physical clues that I was telling the truth, but she never looked for them. Even though I'm 32, I think about that a lot, mainly because I wonder how many other kids who were differently able did she call liars. It's a horrible thing to wonder, but I can't help it.

@star2000shadow: There's no reason to apologize. She wasn't the first, or last to judge me harshly or inaccurately. It's just something that stayed with me simply because I know I'm unusually hardy and unlikely to be the first, or last kid she ever saw and wrongly judged. That's the only reason what she did stays with me. That thought haunts me a bit, especially since she's in a position where most kids would be looking for help from her. Does that make sense? Just thinking of the damage she's possibly done in the name of helping children 'get better'.

@star2000shadow: Exactly. I hope counselors are expected to be a bit wiser these days, but honestly? I'm unsure if they are expected to be since there are still teachers who will punish four year old girls for wearing something that shows their shoulders, despite that the only other things not covered are the neck and head. .

@star2000shadow: Looked for the story I was thinking of, I was one year off, but yeah... Dress codes it feels like have gotten worse over time instead of better?

@star2000shadow: Yeah, I'm glad that I graduated high school before things became that crazy. I don't like the idea of such crazy constrictions getting put there. Also I have no idea why shoulders are viewed that why by anyone at any age. This isn't the victorian era where people put clothes on tables because their tables legs look 'too sexy'.

@star2000shadow: Remember people were uber sexually repressed in the victorian era, so yes that's why we have table clothes in the modern age still used. Men in the Victorian era thought table legs were too arousing as they were reminded of womens legs. Just think of the amount of repression it takes to start seeing ladies sexy legs on a table.

@star2000shadow: Right? XD It's one of the many reasons why I think when people see issues with modest outfits over something as silly as a bare neck or shoulders that it's actually an issue with the person upset over it, not the outfit itself.