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user-inactivated  ·  3157 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How is your family?

Last full time job. Orientation, some executive dude making a presentation. Introduces himself as being married to a beautiful wife, he has two small children... And I'm sitting in the back of the room thinking, f*cker, if I wanted to know about your sex life and mating habits, I would've asked you. If someone were polyamorous, into BDSM, is a house slave bottom... If that person had told the orientation people their sexual habits and marital status, that would've been seen as obscene or inappropriate.

Every time someone asks me about my family, things get awkward. Father died when I was a small child. Mother committed suicide. Older brothers sexually molested their sister. Cults. Stabbings. And all sorts of other stuff I won't mention. Running with Scissors is my spirit book.

I've learned the best way to deal with questions about family is to say, "If I answer that, conversation may get uncomfortable. Care to talk about something else?"