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Sep. 5th, 2003 02:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Touch couldn't be misunderstood, couldn't be twisted to mean something other than what it was, the way words could.
That's from the fic I'm currently reading, and just... I get it, I agree, but at the same time I don't because the interpretation you... that I put on a touch is often coloured by how I'm feeling at the time, what I think the intent behind it is, any associations I have with other people touching me that way or that person touching me a different way... Taking it to an extreme, the abuse victim that can't bear to be touched by anybody, no matter how unthreatening, no matter how gently.
Oh, who am I kidding? Personal. I don't like being touched but at the same time I crave contact. I'm fucked up. Bite me.
Oh, fun thing shown to me by
nostalgia_lj - Lost In Translation turned the opening quote into this:
_ contact to be able not to be defective included/understood, to not only be able with average ruotato being something, this one he to be another one, who to be, deteta, that one word that to be able to do.
Also, what the hell is up with lj changing the default? It's scary!
That's from the fic I'm currently reading, and just... I get it, I agree, but at the same time I don't because the interpretation you... that I put on a touch is often coloured by how I'm feeling at the time, what I think the intent behind it is, any associations I have with other people touching me that way or that person touching me a different way... Taking it to an extreme, the abuse victim that can't bear to be touched by anybody, no matter how unthreatening, no matter how gently.
Oh, who am I kidding? Personal. I don't like being touched but at the same time I crave contact. I'm fucked up. Bite me.
Oh, fun thing shown to me by
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_ contact to be able not to be defective included/understood, to not only be able with average ruotato being something, this one he to be another one, who to be, deteta, that one word that to be able to do.
Also, what the hell is up with lj changing the default? It's scary!