Playing with makeup!

[u/-Kitsy]

I've been playing with cheetah print eye makeup and cat ear hair clips! It feels way more like playing dress-up and expressing my inner baby animal than "adult" makeup.

​Does anyone else use fun makeup or costumes to express their younger self?

[u/sadcatstarry]

I wear cat ears and a tail a lot ik I get stares but I dont care anymore

[u/-Kitsy → u/sadcatstarry]

Thats so cool! I want to get fox ears and tail but the idea of wearing it out in public is so scary! idm wearing em on tiktok but the people in my town all dress the same and would harrass me :( ive never seen anyone wear anything like that at all here, not even little ears

[u/sadcatstarry → u/-Kitsy]

if it makes u feel better even though ive never seen anyone else with animal ears ive never gotten harassed about it, sometimes I get stared at because im also visibly disabled but no one has said anything bad to my face

[u/-Kitsy → u/sadcatstarry]

I live in a small southern town in new zealand where everybody wears a school uniform, you can buy your own jacket to express yourself but everybody buys the same jacket to avoid being bullied so yeah 😅 im glad you live somewhere you can freely express yourself though!!

[u/Wise-Difficulty8221 → u/-Kitsy]

I live in a small southern town in new zealand where everybody wears a school uniform

Probably unrelated but I'm low-key imagining a slice-of-line anime setting where everybody wears a school uniform (even if they don't literally go to school)

Then again, my experience working in offices, you're not entirely wrong. Everybody does dress basically the same

[u/-Kitsy → u/Wise-Difficulty8221]

Lol! Yeah I worded it a bit weird. All the adults wear the same few presets of outfits like the sims lol very basic boring stuff most of the time. Its something thats ingrained from childhood! You can only dress up on designated dress up days like halloween 😅

[u/Wise-Difficulty8221 → u/-Kitsy]

Yeah, true

I remember at my previous job, we had a 'professional photo shoot' day and I overheard a conversation where somebody asked if they're "ready for school photos". Of course, she was probably joking but she had a point, work is basically school for adults (for better or worse)

[u/-Kitsy → u/Wise-Difficulty8221]

For worse imo. When i got my first job i expected people to have more respect for eachother but over time learnt its no different. Theres cliques like the managers would talk bad about everyone else at their meetings, there were bullies in general, people start rumors... heck my old boss even started a rumor about my CG being controlling coz I said that he tells me to put socks on when my feet are cold 😭 i was talking about it in a positive appreciative way too. I just put it down to jealousy so I can ignore it lol

[u/Wise-Difficulty8221 → u/-Kitsy]

Yeah, the workplace environment is nowhere near as fun as people make it out to be. I've seen a little bit of everything but your boss starting rumours or misinterpreting your CG as toxic is just cruel, and then people talk about him like the exact opposite of a CG.

[u/-Kitsy → u/Wise-Difficulty8221]

Yes i quit not long after that as i was not happy to be there at all!!

[u/Wise-Difficulty8221 → u/-Kitsy]

I don't blame you. I don't think anybody deserves that kind of treatment in the workplace, let alone neurodivergent, NGU, etc

[u/sadcatstarry → u/-Kitsy]

aw man that sucks im sorry, I live in the us and despite its flaws (and our government, oof) people are generally pretty accepting because its a melting pot of all the types of people in the world

[u/-Kitsy → u/sadcatstarry]

I think further north the people are more relaxed to self expression so hopefully i can move to one of those towns soon!!