stereotypes
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
I’m working on a new writing project, and was pontificating this morning on patience as I scribbled a few lines here and there. For those who know me personally, you know I’m the least patient person out there. My sister even once told me (back in the day, long before I had a baby) that she was worried I would be a bad mommy because I’m so darned impatient!
I like to call it fast and furious. I am always one step ahead, but if you look closely, the threadwork is poor. My roast chicken is raw on the inside (this really happens–my cookies, too, although raw cookies still taste pretty good, especially with ice cream, yumm…!). I even turned in my graduate school thesis with an old version of a poem (ack!) because I didn’t bother to check it twice.
Last night I was perusing some eating disorder books, and while flipping through pages (because I truly am not patient enough to sit down and read a non-fiction book cover to cover) I came across a passage stating that the personality type for anorexia (and those recovered from anorexia) includes patience, detail-oriented behaviors, and shying away from being the center of attention.
Um.
I’m wary of any system of understanding that puts us in boxes. I like being the center of attention, heck, I wrote my world (sex life and all!) into a book. And I was a terrible student in high school, no detail-oriented tendencies there. I do have some pretty strong Type A qualities, but not the kind that keep me up until two o’clock in the morning putting the finishing touches on a manuscript. I’m more likely to ship it out at noon so I can check ten other things off my to-do list on the same day.
Here I am enjoying being center of attention making funny faces at my sister holding the camera. From a few winters back whilst eating frozen yogurt at home in Charlottesville.
I work hard. I accomplish things. And quickly! I like how I operate; it suits me. And, it’s not the norm for “The Anorexia Personality Type.” Oh well!
How do you differ from your brood?
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I’m overweight(and I mean serious overweight docs orders to lose pounds lol) and I don’t let that get in the way. I hate the stereo type that all fat people are stupid and lazy. I was one of the smartest kids in my class and out of all my friends(even the skinny ones) I’m the most active I work out almost every day doing something I’m even in tae kwon do now. I’ve never let my weight define me sometimes I even forget I’m big!!!!!