Seven things that may come as a surprise to learn about me.
I gave myself the nickname Jojo: When I was a kid, I couldn’t pronounce my name so I called myself Jojo and it caught on from there. I usually tell people to just call me that as some people have a hard time remembering my name, spelling it or pronouncing it.
My teeth aren’t real: There is a genetic disorder in my family where we just have bad teeth, so I have a full set of dentures and have had them since I was eighteen. My grandmother’s on both sides of my family had them out young. Usually people don’t notice until I tell them, they look real.
I don’t like people in costume: People in costume really freaked me out as a kid and clowns still do.
I was asked to not talk about my mental health: A couple years ago I lived with three college students who looked me up online and told the landlord that they didn’t want to live with me. I was asked to delete my mental health diagnoses online.
I’m afraid of heights but I love roller coasters: they are fast, but heights freak me out.
I don’t have a best friend: I had a BFF when I was a kid/teenager but I have been fucked over by females a lot so I really don’t trust anyone.
I have a fourteen year old: My son will be fifteen in June, I signed my rights away when he was seven and he has been adopted. This is something I barely talk about, even offline.
Wow! Some pretty unexpected and interesting facts! That’s so cool that they are able to fit you with dentures that look so real. I know when you just have 1 or 2 teeth that are fake, they kind of stand out, because they are different colors/sheen (my mom has had one since she was young, but it always looks different from her other teeth), but I guess if it’s a whole set, they look uniform! Never knew about a genetic disorder that causes issues like that.
And the thing about your roommates… Jesus. It was they who looked it up in the first place! God. It just seems so immature and inconsiderate, given stigma against mental illnesses are already way too high…
And I’m so sorry about having to sign away your son to adoptive parent(s)… That must’ve been so hard. There’s literally nothing I can say about it that would be worth anything, but just wanted to send my condolences.
Thanks so much for visiting and commenting.
When I lived with those roommates, the landlord actually ended up having me arrested. She called and lied to the police, said I threw her down some stairs. The charges were dropped but I still had to spend a night in jail.
Not being able to see my son is hard, I was able to communicate for a little while in 2014 but the adoptive mom blocked me on facebook last year.