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An Open Letter To Those Who Stereotype Me

Get out of that bubble now, before I start stereotyping you.

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Tanya Sengupta

Hey there! Hope you're having a good time gossiping about me with your gang. Now, don't try to convince yourself that you generally don't, because you know it's a lie. Feels bad, does it? I'm sure you'd say that I'm stereotyping you.

Now take your memory back to those times when you've been judgmental about me and tried to depict me as inferior to you or to your gang of people. Think about that time when for a minor mistake, you stereotyped me to be someone who I'm not, in reality. Why do you always have to keep this constant incorrect notion of my character in your head for few things that I've done in the past or that I do at times? Please understand that people behave differently, in different situations, with different people. You've been assigned no right to put a stamp on my face with your idea of me.

Why don't you have the simple sense of disparity for two individuals just because they share few similarities or are good acquaintances? Not that your views about me matter to me, but it's a big problem that people like you constantly create: to create a bubble of false ideas for a person or thing and stay in it for I don't know how long!

You are nothing but a frog in the well. Harsh, but that's what you're making out of yourself. I pity your lack of empathy to understand how people must be feeling while you name them something and make fun of it.

For a long time, you have made me feel like somebody that's not me and have tried to (probably unintentionally) make me feel bad about myself and hate me for being me. It's been a hard journey from there but I'm finally back to loving myself for who I am and not trying to please you in any way to make you think differently (in a positive way) about me. I'm so done with trying to break your bubble, it's your job now. Inculcate some clarity in your thoughts before stereotyping me or anyone else for that matter.

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