“Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat?”

You can ask yourself the hard questions, or you can avoid them entirely. Both choices are hard. Pick your hard.

I am an introvert who keeps to herself because too many people enjoy placing their peers and loved ones into all sorts of mental traps in the form of questions that are meant to put us in corners and back us up to a wall. They do this because they want to hear comforting lies that quell their nerves, transfer the feelings of discomfort from their bodies…