Re: Me an endo?

[Guest guest]

Anise, I am new here, and Jody has been really helpful to me off

list, and I am sure she is really a very accepting person and

would not be prjudiced against you just because of the way you

are. Give it time. I'm sure when she reads your post she will

understand.

Jane

> Dear Jody

>

> I was really surprised at your suggestion that I might be an

> endocrinologist, or my husband might. I assure you we aren't,

> and we live in Western Australia, and I got the impression that

> you live in America somewhere. I could send you a postcard.

But

> I cannot really prove it, can I?

> Part of what my husband was getting at was that because we

> have a lot of academic friends and move in those circles, and

> interact in that way, I talk in big words and use fancy sentence

> construction, and have this way of consuming and exploring

> concepts that most ordinary people don't do. I really do not

think I

> am superior because of it, just different. In fact it is a real

> handicap in many ways, in many parts of my life, because

> people who talk differently and think differently often assume

that

> I am being condesceding, patronising, that I think that I am

really

> clever and they are stupid. Which I am not. He told me at the

> beginning that I should try to tone down the way I

communicate,

> otherwise people on the list would classify me in that way. and

> he was right, wasn't he.

>

> Luckily I made my career in the wine industry where most

people

> are " poncy " in their own ways, so I kinda fit in.