evil eye
I wrote this in response to a prompt on a private Facebook group, and Peter asked that I post it here so that he could share it. We were talking about the Evil Eye, the deeply and widely held folkloric belief that a curse can come from a glance, a particular way of looking and seeing. This is what I wrote on that topic: ================== The first thing that comes to mind with this is what I think of as “The Look.” I am autistic, and when I was young, this came I wrote this in response to a prompt on a private Facebook group, and Peter asked that I post it here so that he could share it. We were talking about the Evil Eye, the deeply and widely held folkloric belief that a curse can come from a glance, a particular way of looking and seeing. This is what I wrote on that topic: with some physical disabilities that I have since outgrown. When I was little, I was immediately and visibly apparent as a different sort of human. I have this as part of my experience and understanding of the w...