Suiseiseki IRL said:
Are you tired of being the weird person that no one will talk to? Tell your tale and/or thoughts:
I was born with naturally red eyes (genetic defect) yet my right is darker than my left (which is also my worst eye). All my life I have been called a "witch", a "demon", and "the daughter of Satan" by people who saw my eyes. My parents were banned from their church because of this, and they've never forgiven me for it.
This changed (somewhat) in 2004 when I had to get corrective lenses for my left eye which was becoming worse, and contacts were my only option. I wanted to get a different colored iris to hide my left eye so my optometrist decided to make it green since green is the pposite of red on the color spectrum. So I ended up looking like Suiseiseki prior to Rozen Maiden. This was not a problem until I enter high school 3 years ago, and by then a few had seen RM. So then I became the laughing stock of my school.
Now they call me a "nerd" and a cosplayer" and that I dyed my hair brown (which I didn't). My reputation is so trashed at school that no one will talk to me except for my boyfriend will talk to me. I have to keep Clorox wipes in my locker because someone writes "Desu" all over my locker every day. It gets even worse when I get home, where my parents want nothing to do with me.
to be honest.. the high school there sounds more like a elementary school with that level of maturity, when I was younger by highschool really nobody gave a crap... having red eyes would have been considered a " hot commodity" and you really would have had alot of admiration " except those who were perhaps envious that they had no features to stand them apart"
I guess I can only lightly sympathize..though you have all my empathy on it.... When I was 10, the summer before what " in the states" would be 5th grade my breasts started to grow in... buy the Christmas break of that year I was a 32C.. which is the average for many adult women, and here I was a little girl.. and my height shot up to the point that I was a good 3 inches above most of the boys..
because I was tall, blond, ice blue eyes, and athletic, with huge tits " for the age" I was often referred to as an Amazon.. the teasing did not last too long as I was also very violent as a little girl, having been trained as the granddaughter to a very proud chieftain not wanting us to forget our warrior roots.
the year after that my father Temp moved from Scotland, moving us to Nara Japan for several years while he worked on some project " corporate reality/design" and needless to say I stood out like a sore thumb, but I never was teased so much as other girls poking my boobs all the time to make sure they were real..( no not in a paya paya sorta way you pervs)
once the teens hit though I was seen as nothing more than a sex object... which sorta upset me as I was focused strictly on my studies...which worked, I graduated and attended Uni at the age of 16. At that point any stand alone attention came because I was " so young"
closest thing I can say now to being the " odd one" is more or less due to my mixture of cultures...
half my house and traditional wardrobe is VERY Scottish...many rooms have a " highland cottage feel"
other half of my house is VERY japanese, with the tatami floor, shoji walls, My room has a tatami/futon bed still,,,,and I have one room that strictly a Zendo.
so I admit I get odd looks when out in my " monk" attire of Samu ( or yukata/hakama ) kesa/rakusu, rika tabi....but thats typically only when Im teaching at a Zen center, or addressing a sitting group.
Suiseiseki chan ganbatte ne...goshinpai ima naku
