Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe Columnist

I read the following in a book of collected views of Ellen Goodman, a Boston Globe Columnist...

"Discrimination against  what we "see".  The "most unattractive children" in the classrooms of our
youth had their lives and personalities warped by that fact.  Their painful experiences of rejection nurtured in them an expectation of rejection. That expectation, like some paranoia, was almost always
fulfilled"


Most days I think I have a sense of distance from being targeted for my looks..then my body language will convey a different story..or certain public behaviors at holiday parties will happen

So knowing certain things is not putting me at a place to change certain things..yet