Adie's Pupil

[Secular Sanity]

I had a weird thing happen to me. My pupils were unequal in size. One was as large as my iris. They looked like David Bowie’s eyes, one blue and one black. My doctor said that it was benign and nothing to worry about. During the fires, all the smoke was really bothering my eyes. I was using eye allergy relief drops. I started noticing that it only occurred when I was using these drops.  Weird, huh?

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[stryder]

It's possible to get a similar effect if you have one side of you brightly lit and the other dark. Although in the case of reactions to drops, I'd just suggest you be careful with bright lights or direct sunlight, as the iris normal reaction isn't just about bringing things into focus but protecting from too much light. (It would likely produce migraines if it occurred too much) Although it wouldn't be anything close to "arc eye" which isn't particularly pleasant.

Funnily enough pupils dilating is also a reaction with certain recreational (and quite illicit) drugs, LSD literally creates eye saucers like some of those 1920's Felix the cat films.

[C C]

I had a weird thing happen to me. My pupils were unequal in size. One was as large as my iris. They looked like David Bowie’s eyes, one blue and one black. My doctor said that it was benign and nothing to worry about. During the fires, all the smoke was really bothering my eyes. I was using eye allergy relief drops. I started noticing that it only occurred when I was using these drops.  Weird, huh?

Glad the asymmetrical dilation is temporary. Your mentioning the different colors reminded me of a man I met once who had Waardenburg's syndrome. I wasn't aware at the time of all the other varieties or causes of Heterochromia iridum.

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[Secular Sanity]

Glad the asymmetrical dilation is temporary. Your mentioning the different colors reminded me of a man I met once who had Waardenburg's syndrome. I wasn't aware at the time of all the other varieties or causes of Heterochromia iridum.

Yeah, everyone thought that David Bowie had heterochromia but his eyes weren’t different colors. He had anisocoria.

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I'd kind'a imagined SS to be a bit younger.

[Syne]

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I'd kind'a imagined SS to be a bit younger.

LOL! And a bit more feminine.

[Secular Sanity]

Hmm…"Casual, if not awkward, flirting from both parties."

*Click* Mrs. W locks the door.

"C2? Syne? I’m telling you both right now, get in here."
"What do we have to do here?," they asked.
"Nothing. I’m gonna take a shower. You sit there and have a drink," she said.
"You must come here now, she said. Please?"
"No. We don’t want to," they replied.
"I’m not doing anything with you, I promise."
"Five minutes. Don’t ruin your friendship with me for five minutes." she said.

*Mrs. W gloves up* Bwahaha!

Yeah, that’s Mrs. W. alright. You have to live with it.

[Syne]

LOL! A bit more feminine than even Ziggy Stardust isn't all that much of a compliment. Unless you're a drag queen/transgender.
Maybe the W stands for Weiss, where that kind of "femininity" would fit right in.

[Secular Sanity]

LOL! A bit more feminine than even Ziggy Stardust isn't all that much of a compliment. Unless you're a drag queen/transgender.
Maybe the W stands for Weiss, where that kind of "femininity" would fit right in.

What would you say to people that thought you were encouraging her or being flirtatious?

Syne said: "I don't think I purposely encouraged her.

"At first I tried to volley a little bit with her. If she made a comment, I would try to catch it and return it in a way that felt a little safer than the way she threw it at me," said Syne.

"I was trying to save face a bit ... trying to manage the situation."

"I thought I could handle it. I had never met anyone that I couldn't handle... until I met Mrs. W."

Yeah, but you have to wonder. If you flirted, repeatedly giving consent while being as uncomfortable as you now claim, what else did you do without saying "no"?

[Syne]

Already forget which thread you're posting too? https://www.scivillage.com/thread-6129.html

"Ummm...we'll see, a little bit." is encouragement.
"No, it's okay." is encouragement.
"Good, we can do both" is encouragement.
Touching, giggling, and saying something is "hot", with it's obvious sexual connotation, is encouragement.

If I don't think I've encouraged a woman, I KNOW I have not done anything like any of these. The only volley would be to keep it 100% professional. You don't return or reflect inappropriate behavior without encouraging it. You make it "safer" by ignoring it or actually saying "no" when necessary. He gave her many chances to do just that. And if I really needed something from a powerful woman, I might consensually flirt, but I'd never go to her hotel room alone unless I really wanted to make it sexual. If that meant I didn't get what I wanted, so be it. People have to be responsible for defending their own principles/boundaries...which no one even knows unless actually told.

Encouragement plus going to a hotel room alone equals either an appallingly naive ignorance of even basic social interactions or consent.
That you seemed miffed about it would seem to hint that you may share some qualities, like not standing up for yourself and susceptibility to social pressure...or just justifying bad decisions after the fact.