tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post7801629413219376480..comments2024-03-24T13:12:39.210+13:00Comments on Bluestocking <i>Blue</i>: The Red-Nosed ReindeerViviennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-21034655220206379062021-12-26T10:45:28.071+13:002021-12-26T10:45:28.071+13:00I still have absolutely no interest in sports. Thi...I still have absolutely no interest in sports. This still provokes perplexity among my colleagues, who will commonly get up in the middle of the night to watch televised fixtures of NZ teams playing in the Northern Hemisphere.<br /><br />I'm happy to report that things are changing. One of my kids is rainbow, and there is a very comfortable level of acceptance among their peers, and in the school, for their somewhat unorthodox dress sense. So queer kids definitely don't face the same obstacles as we did.Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-21936964593130534682021-12-26T10:39:55.096+13:002021-12-26T10:39:55.096+13:00Yes it is! I wonder if that's where the plot c...Yes it is! I wonder if that's where the plot came from originally?<br /><br />In any case, for trans people, the Ugly Duckling is an even more effective metaphor for what we are!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-8901097049931674412021-12-25T12:04:48.207+13:002021-12-25T12:04:48.207+13:00Unfortunately far too many of us have faced simila...Unfortunately far too many of us have faced similar problems when growing up. I hated football and all sports in truth, I was hopeless at them, as a youngster that had not worked out my way in life it could be very difficult in London's East End in the 60's. I also have dyslexia which although known about at the time was not generally recognised this only added to my problems. When I researched dyslexia much later in life I discovered that it is quite common for people affected by the condition to also have very bad hand eye coordination, no surprise then that I was useless at any sort of ball games from foot ball to snooker! Again another reason for not fitting in. I don't blame the kids in my class / school, it's society that educated them to act they way they did. The system let me down, society deemed I didn't fit the 'norm' and so was treated less favourably than I should have been. Do I regret the life I had, particularly the school years, no not one bit, it was just the way life was. When you live a certain way it's just life, viewed from outside it would seem to be difficult or hard, but you just had to get on with it. The sad thing about poor Rudolph is that he was chastised for not fitting in until Santa deemed he was 'cool' then all of a sudden he was supported and liked. Why can't people be brave enough to support someone different when they recognise they special in someway, instead of following to crowd.........Life by Andrea Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06762074769116922679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-74549142460497137602021-12-24T21:17:11.659+13:002021-12-24T21:17:11.659+13:00Hans Christian Anderson's The Ugly Duckling (w...Hans Christian Anderson's The Ugly Duckling (which I listened to on a Danny Kaye lp when I was 5 or 6) was in much the same vein. <br />A sparkly magical Christmas to you too. xxxSusieJayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01038616807347585413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-80756404928451567132021-12-24T17:31:05.454+13:002021-12-24T17:31:05.454+13:00Thank you so much Lynn! (They're under the fru...Thank you so much Lynn! (They're under the fruit bowl by the back door!)<br /><br />Happy Christmas to you and yours!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06137595207723645418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642548439896244587.post-57247758712888728202021-12-24T12:24:01.486+13:002021-12-24T12:24:01.486+13:00Spooky. Just the other day I was thinking about be...Spooky. Just the other day I was thinking about being the outsider and, here's a post about that very thing.<br /><br />Any chance of next month's lottery numbers or where did I leave my keys? 😉<br /><br />Jokes aside: wishing you both a merry Christmas and that you get that wish.Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.com