Oo Elton has much cooler glasses than I’ll ever have. But seriously the way people mistake me for someone who knows more than I know is hilarious. Even when I was young. When my daughter was young we lived in the twin cities and they have many museums and art galleries. Whenever an exhibition came to the cities I’d read up on it and take my daughter explaining things to her. Once an Aztec exhibition came when she was 3 or 4. Being deaf I can’t join the guided tours of docents so I read up before hand. I was explaining to my daughter what we thought we knew about their calendar when a group of Asian tourists gathered around me to listen. It’s not like I’m an expert but people just listen to me. And that was way before I got glasses! I had a friend who told me it’s because I don’t claim to know enough that I sound like I do know more than I do. If that makes sense. Yet by sight alone I get judged and dismissed because I look like an bohemian hippie. I can’t say how many in the psych field or how many pdoc have said their first impression of me was to dismiss me because of the way I dress. But then I talked and was re-evaluated But I love my hippie clothes.