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Ye gods, all the time. Let's see...

I get called gay:
-Because I wear tight pants
-Because I wear make-up
-Because I wear a lot of jewelry

I get called a Satanist:
-Because I wear black
-Because I wear a lot of chains and spikes
-Because I wear band wristbands

C'est la vie, though. You get used to it. Sometimes it can really affect things, but you just have to learn to accept it, and try to change the impressions of those who matter.

I don't really wear anything that particulary stands out....usually just jeans and a college hoodie.

I've never really been called anything...I don't know if there is much to assume religious-wise from my clothes. I usually don't wear a cross or anything. I have one but I usually wear it on holidays and I have to wear a dress.

I have a nice nameplate necklace though. I seem to switch between that and my claddaugh necklace as far as everday wear goes. And I wear a claddaugh ring all the time. So maybe people do assume I'm Catholic because of the Irish thing...but not likely.

Religion never comes up for me in conversation, much less assuming a person's religion from dress. I cannot think of any time in memory that I've witnessed someone doing that or have done it myself. Unlike a person's physical appearance determined solely by genetics, though, I will judge people by how they dress. But these are not cemented judgements which are unchangeable and impermeable, but tenative hypothesis. People wear what they like, and it advertizes who they are.

Even so, I'd never try to infer something like religion from how someone dresses, largely because I have no way in my own head of making those assumptions even remotely accurate (unlike, say, assuming someone wearing a fantasy shirt is a fan of fantasy). Only very obvious dress cues are wise to place judgements on. If someone's wearing a shirt that says on the back "shut up and drink your beer, stupid," a person has every right to judge them for that accordingly. This doesn't mean you treat them like trash by any means, though. It just means that if you dislike hanging around with people who drink you don't try to garner them as a friend.

LDS? Is that learning Disorder sydrom or something else?
Sorry I really don't know.

LDS is an abbreviation for Latter Day Saints as in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or The Mormon Church.

As for what Purus said... goth is not a religion. Those people you're dealing with don't know much about goth. It's a subculture that grew out of music, speicifically a gloomy, distant style of post-punk, starting in the late 70s and early 80s. It's hard to find genuine goths these days.. most don't know what they're talking about.

Yes, I am constantly judged for what I wear. I refust to wear what all the "popular" girls do and for that I am judged a misfit among them. I am okay with that though, their oppinions matter not to me. I have my own group of friends who accept me for who I am and what I choose to wear.

That sounds so cool!!! biggrin