I Am Not Zac Efron (Humor Only!)

[ghost]

Hi Everyone

As some of you may be aware, last week I uploaded a personal photograph to use as my avatar. (see below)


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Since then I have been flooded with comments from forum members, with questions and requests in relation to this photograph.

Rather than respond to each comment individually, I thought it best to save myself a little time and energy and answer the messages collectively, via the public forum.

Here goes...

ghost!!! I just saw your photo. You're REALLY hot!!!. You look a lot like Zac Efron.

Thankyou, I do hear that quite a bit. Although Zac is actually a bit shorter than me, and my hair is a bit thicker.

ghost you are hot!!! hot hot hot.

Thankyou. I do try to take care of myself... In the morning I apply an organic facial moisturiser combination spf 30+ suncreen. At lunch time each day I perform a quick chemical scrub and reapply the combination moisturiser/sunscreen. I also do a full chemical wash every evening and yes, I wear a dead sea mineral mud mask to bed each night.

ghost, you are sooooooooooo dreamy!!! (male member)

*raises eyebrow* Why thankyou 'male member'. *shifts uncomfortably in chair*

I just saw your new avatar ghost! Is that really you? WHERE DO YOU LIVE??? I'm going to fly to Australia so we can hang out.

Ahem... Did I say Australia? That's a typeo. I actually meant to type Austria... I'm in Austria, ya!

ghost are you Zac Efron? It's okay. You can tell me. I won't tell anyone else.

No, I am not Zac Efron.

ghost you drive me wild! You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to take my **** and **** your **** with chocolate sauce until **** ****. Then I'd **** your **** with my **** and **** **** rubber chicken ****** until you can't even ****** **** straight

*raises both eyebrows*

ghost call me

Will do... Hang on, aren't you married?

ghost you sure are a cutie pie, YES YOU ARE! I just want to eat you right up!

Maybe you should try a sandwich first?! Afterwards you'll probably find you're not even that hungry anymore.

 

[Tiger Kitten]

I don't know who Zac Efron is but this post made me almost fall out of my chair. Thank you I needed a good laugh tonight :)

 

[gdf]

This post made me check to see if I logged on to the right website. I too must confess I laughed out loud. Oh, sorry LOL in the vanacular of computer world. I must be getting really old...exactly who is Zac Efron? I am gonna have to go Google that.

 

[anni]

Hee. That would be a giggle. I also do not know who Zac is, although you are both nice looking young men. That is a total MOM observation, rather like looking at photos one's female buddies pull from their purses during a Mom Session.

I only replied because I very much enjoyed the laugh, and thank you for posting the thread.

I hope it's been cleared up for you, and you know the moms out here probably all said "Oh what a good-looking young man, want to see my grandson?". :)

Take care,

Anni

 

[Grama-Herc]

OK, I am goning to be the party pooper as usual. I fail to see anything humorous in this. I find it inappropriate for this forum and should not be here at all.

 

[Deleted member 541]

My opinion is........ I too find it rather distasteful, because of the sexual stuff also...But hell, I am only a sexual abuse sufferer....

 

[Tiger Kitten]

I don't see anything wrong with it. It's in the chit chat area. There are jokes in this area that are far more distasteful. There is only one of the fake inquiries that could be taken as a sexual thing. You have to fill in the blanks to get that. And you can make it anything you want. I have been trying to do that and it gets funnier and funnier because you can't really make anything sexual out of it. It's totally absurd.

Sometimes ptsd makes us unable to laugh. If you don't like a post and have nothing positive to say perhaps you should take a step back and look at what you are actually doing. Stop and ask yourself... is this hurting anyone? is this designed to make anyone feel uncomfortable? is what I am putting forward due to my own issues?

I am not attacking anyone here and do not want to come off that way. I just think sometimes one needs to step back and actually look at what is really going on.

Tiger

 

[Deleted member 541]

Tiger Kitten, while I respect your opinion, I am still *entitled* to mine, and mine hasn't changed from when I posted it earlier.

 

[tude]

I too found this humorous, especially your responses to the comments made to you. I found it to be a lighthearted example of how people can be online.

 

[helena]

Hey Ghost,

I haven't been on the forum much so never saw this photo. I actually thought it was you(duh!) and was going to email amy and tell her to check out the forum just to see how hot that Ghost is!!!

Good job I checked Google Images before I did!

Very funny!!

 

[growingpains]

I appreciate your humor. I think laughter is the best medicine...especially when it is not directed at me. Now you have got me thinking of all of the possibly gorgeous men in the world who "might" have PTSD and "might" join....Zac while adorable looks a bit too young for my taste. Thanks for the comic relief!

 

[anni]

I logged off today, feeling more-than-ordinarily-crappy about myself. You see, I'd read up on this little thread, then had written a private message to poor Tiger saying gosh, thanks Tiger for sticking up for us little marshmallows out there. I am, too- a big fat marshmallow. I'm also feeling incredibly awful about myself the the moment-just shamed, 'at fault', guilty- and actually in tears. That isn't anyone's problem but my own and I'll deal with it.

Listen, everyone is obviously entitled to their opinions. It's the point of this and any well-run. professional forum. There also has to be a point to the forum and the point of this one is to be helpful to a PTSD suffer. This would include yes, being able to be triggered slowly and then healing through controlled triggering. It just plain works. Another thing which works is feeling safe. I clicked on this thread because it was a 'safe' one- obviously light-hearted, funny, good to read. I posted that I laughed and posted something light-hearted in response. GH and SC didn't like it and said so. That is fine and your right. Of course it is. You're reactive to sexual content. Some of us, me included, are reactive to contention and judgement. I'm also reactive to sexual abuse, having been raped during a court-ordered visitation with my baby's father . No I don't in the slightest think it is funny- I'd only been noticing Ghost's silly post, actually. I laughed and said so, they didn't like it and said so which actually made me feel genuinely awful-seriously shamed and judged. Typical PTSD.

I'm only saying all this because I'm really tired of feeling crappy about myself, feeling shamed and guilty. Yes it's entirely my problem for reacting this way when these things pop up. I should not have left it to Tiger alone to post something saying that this is not anything but a light thread with no ill intent. Certainly, people like me have to be able to at some point heal to the point where we are no longer wounded by the perceived judgements of others. I am sincerely trying, and being here is part of that triggering/healing cycle, I know.

Certainly, because of the sexual traumas suffered by many of us here we have to be careful how sex is portrayed in posts. In the same vein it would be good to be a little careful how much we trigger others by how we convey disapproval also. I absolutely realize this will be disapproved of, and of course am sorry for that, also.

Anni