Reverie
1 min readSep 16, 2022

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I don't normally rate people like that. I could, but I usually have more interesting things to be thinking about. Also, I don't look at the average person and think about how they relate to me somehow, whether they are better or worse than me, because most of them aren't people I will even interact with let alone measure against.

Most people I see as "normally unique". They aren't attractive to me personally, but that doesn't make them unattractive to someone else. They ren't model-beautiful but they also aren't noticeably ugly. They are all just unique-looking.

Would you really want to rate the old woman in the street, the middle aged neighbour, the pimply teenager, on an attractiveness scale? It feels wrong to me. I wouldn't even think of them in those terms. Not because they're ugly, but because I just don't relate to them in that context.

Occasionally I will see someone who really stands out to me visually as shockingly good looking. But it's rare. And I don't normally compare myself with them either.

You might think from this that I'm asexual, but I'm not. I'm very sexual. It's just that I'm demisexual and am attracted to other things than appearance.

I used to compare myself to people a lot, regarding body size, when I was in the throes of my eating disorder. I used to think how thin I was compared to others. But that was a symptom of my disorder and thankfully I rarely think that way anymore.

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Reverie
Reverie

Written by Reverie

“The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds” — Cloud Atlas

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