My genuine fear is that you’ll just brush me off with a sensible chuckle and keep sleepwalking on down the street.

But seriously, I find that the one recurring theme in nightmares I have is that people simply won’t believe me.

Wait till you're 65. It's more than disbelief, people start to actively moronify you. I'm not that age yet, but I've see it happening to purple my parent's age

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Terr_ a day ago | parent [-]

Or women of any age in certain contexts, like buying a car, or explaining to a doctor that some abdominal pain is not imaginary or temporary.

	▲	fennecfoxy 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think that that issue is inherent to women. I think it's inherent to everyone and we get affected on different levels in different contexts. Any man who's been told to "man up" (most) has experienced the same.