And I thought I'd tell about those recent ones, but also some others that are not necessarily about being goth, since I am a "babybat."
I've always gotten stares, as you always get dressing any way that is other than the norm.
But recently, I've been told what people have been saying.
What I've heard is: my friend told me she heard a freshman(of course) girl saying something along the lines of, "Have you seen what the goth girl is wearing today?"
Now, I live in a small town. Like, I'm talking small. There's NO other goths at my school, and I don't know any in the area, so yeah. The majority of my school is either cowboys or rich kids. And I get a lot of prejudice from people.
I was sitting in my history class, minding my own business, when this cowboy guy comes up and sits in front of me. He's really judgmental about a lot of stuff, so I knew it was coming. He looked at my binder, which has Motionless In White on it, and said, "Where they from? Hell?" And I replied, "No. Next door." But he liked all the other bands I had on my binder, so that was cool.
Another time, I was in chemistry, and this same guy saw my Black Veil Brides tee shirt, and said, "What's your shirt say?" He looked at it for a few seconds and said, "Yeah, I like bands that don't wear makeup, and aren't gay." I just ignored it, as always.
Like, none of them are gay, they have girlfriends. And I listen to many types of music, not just one band or one type of music.
Some of my friends react to my outfits sometimes, too. None of them are goth, so it's not surprising, they don't understand it.
In my French class last week, we did a fashion show. My group did alternative fashion. I dressed goth, of course. I wore: creepers, leather pants that are basically like a second skin, bullet belt, black tank top, fishnet glove, spiky bracelet, chain collar, black lipstick. So, I guess it was kinda shocking for the class and especially the teacher. We had a substitute, so she wasn't used to my style, and she was really old, too. So, I expected the teacher to be like, mean or something, but she came up to me and said, "I really like your hair, where'd you get it done?" And that made me happy. But, when I asked her if I could change out of the pants (cause it was kinda like I wasn't even wearing pants, they were that tight), she said, "Yeah, before someone picks you up." That made me laugh, cause I don't think anybody at my school likes goths. I just highly doubt that they are attracted to that.
Lately, I have also been getting a lot of compliments from random people, too.
Like random people I don't even know will somehow know my name..
I've just been walking down the hall, and someone will be like, "Avery, I love your shirt." Or "I love your hair."
But it's been happening a lot lately, so that's been nice.
When I was 13 and 14, I had really short hair. At 13 it was like uber short and I had a fauxhawk. At 14 it was basically Justin Bieber. Ew, I know. But I was mistaken for a boy SOO MUCH. Literally, I could tell you so many stories about being called a boy. But I will just tell a few.
I was at the library, in line to check out my books. And some old lady was in line, too. The librarian thought she was next, but I actually was. The old lady said, "He's next." I ignored it of course, cause what am I gonna do? "I'm a girl, lady." No, I'm too shy to correct old people like that.
I was at a memorial day service at the park, and it was really crowded. There were old people everywhere. And this older man, probably in his 60s comes up, pushing a very old man in a wheelchair. I moved out of the way, and they passed kinda. And the 60s man was like, "Come on up here, son." Again, what can you say? I just went up.
Another time, we were hosting my moms best friend's baby shower at our house. I was wearing my pajamas which were: adidas pants, and an old tee shirt. And my mom's best friend's mom said to my mom, "Who's the boy?" And my mom was like, "That's my DAUGHTER, Avery."
And that is why I do not have short hair anymore.
Those are really all the reactions I could think of, so I hope you enjoyed hearing the stuff that happens to me. I usually ignore it all, cause what people think of me is not what matters. Life is too short to care what people think. I wanna do what I want, even though it may be stupid at times, and I'm not gonna let people's opinions bring me down.
Selfie of the day. Sorry for no makeup, I was feeling summertime coming on.
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