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Originally Posted by DanaC
That's weird rk. Horrible having people stare at you, I think. When I was a kid my eczema used to get so bad I'd be covered in bandages, and my face would swell up. People stared, one woman even pulled her kid away from me; I think she was scared her kid would catch whatever i had :P
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Not really horrible. I wasn't trying to make it a negative. It's not. I was an actor for a very long time, so I'm not weird about attention.
I'm just confused about it.
I was near the front door, but the whole front of the bar is windows, no light adjustment. I was with mix of regulars and new people. Honestly, I go to concerts at bars from time to time and have never had this happen, but they tend to be "harder" bars or more rock oriented, we/I just don't get that kind of attention in those bars. A lot of them were actually were our age (mid thirties and some were even older), it was an Irish pub. I was not upset, I'm really curious.
When people just come up and ask why I am more than happy to tell them and help them understand. People need to feel comfortable with illness and mortality.
Now that I think about it, perhaps my being with an attractive woman was weird for them?
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not occur to them that people in wheelchairs can visit bars.
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Ok, that is just weird.