CallaFirestormBW -> RE: How quickly do You lay Your cards on the table with a new sub/slave ? (3/22/2009 12:37:39 PM)
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In terms of social interactions, whether it's someone from CM or someone from another venue entirely, I am who I am and what I am. They see it up front, in my posts, and immediately during our conversations. I'm not a robot. My opinions on things have changed over time, and my understanding of life develops with every experience. That being said, the core of who and what I am are what they are, and holding off on showing that to people just isn't the way I want my social interactions to go. The only people who get a little bit of a break, for whom I'll put on a limited "social mask" are my co-workers. They know, in general, about some of my life (like the fact that I do pastoral care for alternative-lifestyle communities, and that I am body-modified), but we don't talk about it, nor is any reference to it found anywhere in connection to my work environment. They are innocent bystanders, and I do my best to allow the "good manners" I was taught while I was young to direct my interactions with them. While they may know a good bit about my inclinations, my social self has nothing to do with my work, and so it never comes into the workplace. I don't make friends with my co-workers, and don't socialize with them outside of work, and that's the way I intend to keep it (and, interestingly, I find it uncomfortable to continue to socialize with the few friends who have been social friends and whom I've helped to get work where I work.)
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