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Jessica Wildfire
Jessica Wildfire

Jun 29, 2018

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Maybe you’re not rude after all

Most of our politeness rules are bullshit.

Photo by Carol Oliver on Unsplash

A teacher sent me home for showing my underwear in fifth grade. The same year, I also got in trouble for asking a classmate about their gender identity. Stuff like that was always happening. I always managed to break some invisible rule out of social blindness.

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