People are Strange, When You're a Stranger

July 17th, 2006

After yesterday's shadowbox class, one of the other students (who has been in many classes that I've taken over the past several years) walked up to me. She looked at my pink hair and said, in a flat voice, "Didn't your hair used to be BLACK?"

Startled, I said, "Well, it used to be dark, but I'm going through chemotherapy now and so I'm playing with different wigs since that I don't have any hair."

"Oh," she said, then immediately turned on her heel and walked away.

It was the strangest response! All I could think was, "Um…okay."

A friend reminded me today that some people associate chemotherapy with dying, and when confronted with someone going through it, their brain just tells them "avoid, avoid, avoid!" That's probably true—and it does explain many reactions I encounter—but I still thought it was hysterical.

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