I am not sure how people will take me: whether I will make them uncomfortable, whether they will be able to overlook the changes and look for the person who still inhabits this misshapen head.

我不知道别人如何看待我：我是否会让他们感到不自在？

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One thing that works for me is to make an explicit rule in my head that I have to say something at least every few minutes, preferably more.

对我挺有效的一条是，在脑子里树立一个明晰的条例，规定我必须至少每隔几分钟说几句话，或者更多。

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And at last, with bowed head and quavering voice I would have to make a beginning — but too keenly conscious that to none else in the room but me was this performance sufficiently heartrending.

最后，还得开始吟唱，低垂着脑袋，颤抖的声音，- - -但是我极其敏锐地意识到，在这屋子里，再没有人比我对于这表演更为肝肠欲断的了。

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But if I join a fraternity and they pour cow poop on my head and make me stand in the rain for a month wearing pantyhose while they throw rocks at me I then think--after it I think "God, I went through a lot of stuff to get into this fraternity.

但如果我加入之前，他们要往我头上泼牛粪,要我穿着女内裤在雨中站一个月,他们还朝我扔石头,事后我就会想,”为了加入这个兄弟会我吃了不少苦头“

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Every once in a while, it seems they find new ways to make me shake my head in wonder.

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After enough interviews with physicists, engineers and doctors to make me want to stick my head in a microwave oven, one common line of reasoning emerged.

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Why do I at 130 lbs, in a size 6 or 8 (depending on the time of the month), struggle every day with food, have to listen to this running dialogue in my head that does nothing but make me feel horrible about my body?

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