when customers speak to me, pronouncing each word slowly and clearly and with intense eye contact
like they don't expect me to understand English.
and it's really fucking weird and also really unpleasant
to be dismissed on the basis of my appearance is a really unpleasant feeling especially because hello i've lived here since i was two i speak English perfectly fine i've been an Australian citizen since before i was a year old I CAN TAKE YOUR FUCKING ORDER
it's probably hit me hard because i can't recall ever having an experience comparable to it
like it's not the first time someone's assumed i can't speak english
but it's the first time it's been so blatant? and i'm just used to everyone around me knowing that my english is 200% fine so yeah it was a bit of a shock
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