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I don't pay much attention to any positivity movements because they are going to install a belief in me that makes me head out in the wrong direction because my mind twists and catastrophizes things - and, I don't really care much for it. Just let me hermit, and live my life without having to problematize everything on social media. Whatever seems to be close to normalized there, never has any hold close to that in Norway. I keep seeing themes and issues I read about from US\UK two years earlier, pop up today and being the "first time" my older family members hears about it, and it makes a clear case to normalizing anything on the idea of a "global" scale online has a small effect at rubbing over to your local contemporary. Obviously, exceptions, but this is how I experience it.
Having said that, I have seen some people with body hair in public, but not many, and not that I'm expecting it as I rarely see a variety of new people. For myself, I'm just a lazy shaver. I will put in some extra effort to cover the bare minimum like bikini lines, armpits, and legs during summer, and during winter it will mostly just grow for a few months unless I gotta wear something where I know it's going to make me uncomfortable. It's just there and I'll do whatever I feel like when I feel like it.Â