Hmmm. Someone who is subtle, low-key, and has learned to express themselves in ways that don't get the hammer from the big bad people around them may be _described_ as a doormat, but the perceptive may notice a lot more. The quickly suppressed little smile - the wry comment they share when they know they have an audience that will tolerate it - the cautious but very real rebellion that hey, there is a person here.
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Date: 2015-04-08 01:28 pm (UTC)Is that a game she could be playing?