Jason Voorhees
𝕯𝖝𝕯 𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖜 𝕵𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗
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I had gone to a stationery shop around 9 in the morning to buy some notebooks, since I’d run out of them while writing my PM case studies. While I was browsing, I noticed a very pale LTB with blonde hair looked just like a white woman and it isn't uncommon for Americans on exchange programs to come to town so I didn’t think much of it and went ahead with my purchase.
Then I suddenly heard her speaking on the phone in Malayalam. That caught me off guard I thoughtbwait what? Is she Malayali too? Since I’m a mallu myself I turned to her and asked in Malayalam, “Are you a Malayali?”
I was wearing my Timbs and towered over her so she looked up and replied nervously but in a very formal, old-fashioned and polite Malayalam: “Yes sir, I am.” The second I heard her accent, I could tell where she was from it had that “cleanest Malayalam” touch. People from only one particular region still speak like this. So I asked if she was from Kottayam, and she said yes.
I then asked what she was doing here, since she didn’t look like someone from around the area. She said she was in for a competition and that she was a 2nd year student. I told her honestly that at first I thought she was a white woman, and she clarified: No, no I’m not. I’ve had albinism since birth.
I replied that she didn’t really look like an albino to me since the few I’ve seen had features that made it obvious. She told me that she dyes her eyebrows and eyelashes brown and unlike most with albinism her eyes are blue instead of pink which makes her look more like a white person.
I asked if people often mistake her for a foreigner and she laughed saying it happens all the time even at airports, where she’s asked for her passport. People think she is Swedish, German or British or something. She wanted to continue the conversation but I told her I was running late so I wrapped it up and left
Then I suddenly heard her speaking on the phone in Malayalam. That caught me off guard I thoughtbwait what? Is she Malayali too? Since I’m a mallu myself I turned to her and asked in Malayalam, “Are you a Malayali?”
I was wearing my Timbs and towered over her so she looked up and replied nervously but in a very formal, old-fashioned and polite Malayalam: “Yes sir, I am.” The second I heard her accent, I could tell where she was from it had that “cleanest Malayalam” touch. People from only one particular region still speak like this. So I asked if she was from Kottayam, and she said yes.
I then asked what she was doing here, since she didn’t look like someone from around the area. She said she was in for a competition and that she was a 2nd year student. I told her honestly that at first I thought she was a white woman, and she clarified: No, no I’m not. I’ve had albinism since birth.
I replied that she didn’t really look like an albino to me since the few I’ve seen had features that made it obvious. She told me that she dyes her eyebrows and eyelashes brown and unlike most with albinism her eyes are blue instead of pink which makes her look more like a white person.
I asked if people often mistake her for a foreigner and she laughed saying it happens all the time even at airports, where she’s asked for her passport. People think she is Swedish, German or British or something. She wanted to continue the conversation but I told her I was running late so I wrapped it up and left
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