I deeply dislike sewing, and find it extremely frustrating, but I wish somebody else would go into business doing it.
Campus police at my college are a relatively liberal bunch, especially for cops, and I made sure they knew me because of my seizures, and I brought them all homemade cookies last time I had a seizure and they got me an ambulance, so no problems there. Most of the time, I come off as odd rather than threatening, because I'm white, blonde, under 5 feet and frequently on oxygen, but I've had store personnel and the like tell me that if I'm sick, I should leave, and treat me like a plague carrier. Explaining that genetic diseases aren't contagious, and that it's me catching something from them, or reacting to an allergen that is the concern tends to go over like a lead balloon.
And I have to wear it in airports and on planes. Airports are hell for me for many reasons, but the people convinced I'm going to blow up a plane are definitely high up there. Actually, whoever thinks a terrorist would cover their face for that kind of thing has clearly not thought it through. Covering your face gets you noticed and remembered too quickly.
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Date: 2012-06-11 05:11 pm (UTC)Campus police at my college are a relatively liberal bunch, especially for cops, and I made sure they knew me because of my seizures, and I brought them all homemade cookies last time I had a seizure and they got me an ambulance, so no problems there. Most of the time, I come off as odd rather than threatening, because I'm white, blonde, under 5 feet and frequently on oxygen, but I've had store personnel and the like tell me that if I'm sick, I should leave, and treat me like a plague carrier. Explaining that genetic diseases aren't contagious, and that it's me catching something from them, or reacting to an allergen that is the concern tends to go over like a lead balloon.
And I have to wear it in airports and on planes. Airports are hell for me for many reasons, but the people convinced I'm going to blow up a plane are definitely high up there. Actually, whoever thinks a terrorist would cover their face for that kind of thing has clearly not thought it through. Covering your face gets you noticed and remembered too quickly.