Taking the Week Off

In the past week, I've had several unrelated instances where I was told, essentially, "Sean, could you not be you?" Nobody said those specific words, but the various "asks" I got were all about they expressly didn't want to see/hear what I had to say. Not because it insulted anyone, not because it was crass, not even because some disagreed with me. They were just bothered that something I said that did not interest them crossed their timeline and they had to see it.

I've had a fair degree of that over my life, but mostly when I'm among a kind of broad audience. What hit me with these was that they all came from ostensible geeks, but geeks who just didn't like my particular flavor of geekdom. And that brought back the same feelings of rejection that I got for decades before I found a community that... well, I wasn't exactly embraced, but I was at least allowed to sit at the table.

But dredging up some decades-old feelings of "go away; we don't want to have to even see you here" on top of the general stress and anxiety of [waves at everything] is a bit much for me right now, so I'm going to avoid being online as much as I can this week. I'll return to blogging next week.

But since it's now Black History Month, go find some comics by Black creators and read them in the meantime.

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