1 every 5 years?? Yeah, ok, Mr. Popular.

Once I was walking out of a Target. I passed by a woman and her maybe 6 or 7 year year old kid just in time to hear the kid say “mommy that guy creeps me out”.

Thanks to three concussions before age 5… and my entire 20’s being spent in a drug haze… my memory is pretty shot. But I remember that encounter as clear as day.

I’m sure I’ve received a few honest to goodness unsolicited compliments, but they don’t stick in my mind as much as the derision.

I’m a trans woman. Before I transitioned, the grand total number of compliments I ever received was a big fat 0. Now I receive at least one compliment from strangers every week.

I once had a kid stop and tell her mom I was the most beautiful man she’d seen because I had colorful highlights. I also had another kid stop and tell her mom that I was cute before said highlights. I never forgot those moments

Guy doing checkout at the grocery store the other day finishes scanning my stuff, stops for a second and says:

“You know that movie Bullet Train? With Brad Pitt? You look like him in that right now”

I kinda see where he’s coming from (not really) but I’m not ever gonna forget that shit

Almost ten years ago, I was walking and as a car drove by, a woman inside it yelled something at me. I couldn’t hear what she said but I assumed she was catcalling me. That memory warms me to this day.

I have long silver hair and have been complimented by two dudes quite younger than me. I returned the compliment, it was nice.

A stripper said I have nice skin. It was a good weekend. I’ve never heard that before.

*Complimented