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[semperfiona]

As long-time readers are aware, except for a couple of individuals, I'm not precisely out at work. I talk about everybody in my life, I just don't use relationship tags for anyone. People get called by name when I talk about them, which I do regularly, often in contexts like 'we're going to visit Tammie's cousin' or 'Chris's parents are coming to see us' or 'we all went to see the Hobbit at that new dinner theater' or whatever.

But today, Thuy had come to ask me some work-related questions. She saw our family picture on my desk, and she asked me who the picture was. For some reason I don't comprehend, I just said, 'that's my girlfriend and my boyfriend and my daughter and me'. She made me repeat myself several times, asking 'her boyfriend' and things like that, and I just repeated the original statement or replaced 'my' with 'our'. I'm pretty sure she went away thinking I was taking the piss, despite the absolute and complete truth of every word.

People see what they want to see.

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[corwin77.livejournal.com]

People do see what they want to see. Like I see that you're happy and that's all I need to see.
Then some people are stupider than me.

[semperfiona]

You're not stupid in the least, Bastard. *mwah*

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

I know many people who would disagree with that statement. But thank you. :)

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I don't know whether Thuy really doesn't understand or is just being intentionaly dense - I've had similar conversations with her.

At any rate - you've worked here long enough that folks have already formed an opinion and if her opinion has suddenly been shattered - well that's her problem. :)

[semperfiona]

Yeah, I can never quite tell with her either. Language barrier definitely exists, but I can't tell how far it goes.