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[galadhir]

Going back to the queer youth group for which I volunteer today. (I basically am just like an assistant adult whose main contribution is to be present while the actual trained youth worker does all the real work.) I have lateral flow Covid tests and will make sure I'm clear before I go, but it's going to be the most social interaction I've had for over a year and I'm a bit nervous about it. Do I remember how to be a human in company? IDK. We'll find out.

I'd only just started being involved - I'd been like three times - before Covid struck. But it is so good to be in a real-life queer space instead of just on the internet. It does me a lot of good - it's a liberation just being in a room where you know people are making more accurate assumptions about you. As a non-binary person that's really the best you can hope for, in terms of gender affirmation.

I hope it helps the kids as much (or more, of course) as it does me :)

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[galadhir]

Thanks! Yes, it was great to see them all again, but I came home shattered :) (I find social interaction draining at the best of times, and now I'm really out of practice.) It's like a muscle, I expect. Practice will strengthen it :)

[mistressofmuses]

I'm with you - I'm very much an introvert, and being around people, even fun people or fun situations, is extremely exhausting.

I'm lucky in a sense that my job returned after just a couple months, so I was thrown back into having to interact with people in-person pretty quickly, and didn't entirely acclimate to being alone. But I do think it'll take some real practice to feel comfortable being social in big groups again!

(I hope you recover/ed quickly!)