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Congratz, good to hear not everyone is alone.

I can run more than two miles without rest, I felt like I did pretty well on my morning summer midterm today, and I don't have to work today and can just sleep after staying up all night preparing for the midterm. After doing poorly last semester, it feels good to be back on top.

A friend of mine sent me a message about getting together with her and her boyfriend and some other folks to play D&D at some point soon. I hope it happens because I miss that game so much.

Long live the last Celtic leader of Gaul! , I wish my Dnd group would mobilize again

I didn't get suspended from college and for that I am thankful

The last Celtic leader of Gaul? What's that about? I don't know much about D&D. It's great that you didn't get suspended from college! Ooh, here's something epic and awesome:
[youtube]FF9 You Are Not Alone - YouTube[/youtube]

Their username is Vercingetorix, the military leader of Gaul who tried to unite the continental Celts against Julius Caesers invasion of Gaul. I think my DnD group is dead at this point, too bad, I had such a cool character.

Going to get my voc rehab money at the end of the week, so long poverty

Oh, okay. I had never heard of that until now. Great, I learned something new about history! Well, good for you, no more poverty!
By the way, have you ever played ICO? I've never played either ICO or SOTC since the closest thing I have to a PS3 is a PSP.

Yeah I played Ico, got the PS3 Ico/SotC remastered pack

Oh, lucky! Oh, well. I can always watch both ICO and SOTC on Youtube.

Hung out with some of my brother's friends for bit tonight, it went pretty well and I liked talking to someone new. Pretty sure one of the dudes is on the spectrum or something, odd guy and not so much of small talker but jumping right into intellectual conversation works fine for me. It's hard to trust people, it's hard to not be guarded but I'm just taking the interaction for what it is without any expectations which is still a pretty big step from my usual isolation.

Maybe its not totally hopeless, the medication I think is helping but I worry about my dependence on it since they don't want you to take benzos that long but what if that's only thing that makes you functional? I wouldn't exactly call myself functional but this closest I've ever been so I have a fear of the rug being pulled from under me. I am doing really well as school, I guess I should be happy. The depression is very up and down, I'm so reactive that any little thing can just sour days and I get excited quick too only to get crushed later.

I just want normalcy really, I'm very conflicted about the future and I really don't know what I am capable of so I don't have any sense of security or confidence in what I am doing and my biggest weakness is my tendency to avoid and withdraw so it's just very hard to not resist what is my own nature for what probably would eventually be a guaranteed check. I don't want that life but that life is better than being totally dependent on my parents which I am now.

I am really glad I found WP. Being able to read other members posts about their experience with autism and being able to relate to their experiences myself gives me a sense of calm and peace that I really needed. By learning about others I learn about myself and find that I am able to forgive myself for how my life turned out, that I can finally come to peace with who I am.

I find my cat really cute.

Ooh, I love cats!

Yesterday I was in Walmart in line and of course it was a Saturday afternoon so it was pretty crowded with all sorts of people. In the line next to me was a lady and her husband maybe around 50 years old or a little older and a little boy who sounded like he was about 4 but looked about 3 so we'll go with 3, LOL.

The little boy was throwing a little tantrum yelling "Nana no!! Go back! You have to go back! I have to show you!!" and she was replying "No, we asked the lady, she already told us that they don't have any. We'll come back tomorrow," in a very patient but firm voice.

The little boy continued on hollering this same thing for probably 3 minutes straight (which is a very very long time even if it doesn't seem like it, when this is going on) and she would once in awhile tell him again that there isn't any, and they're not going back. Then he started to kick at her and hit at her hands while screaming and she stepped backwards away from him and told him "no, we don't hit and kick people" and reminded him that they don't have any, and we're not going back. The grandpa came over and started to say "let me take him back over there" and "Nana" replied "no, he has to learn that no means no and he can't always have what he wants right now" and the grandpa backed away and let Nana carry on with the little boy, who continued to throw the fit. He eventually started to pretend to cry, with no tears and a lot of drama, every once in awhile peeking over at Nana to see how she was taking it. Nana stood her ground. Eventually the little boy stopped with all the nonsense and waited quietly.

On the way out of the store I leaned in and just said quietly to her "that was a good Nana thing to do" and offered her a smile. She looked SO relieved and said "Thank you!"

I wish that I would see more parents stand their ground where appropriate with the little ones like that. I bet he doesn't do that with Nana again. Grandpa, maybe, LOL.

You know, that seems to be the problem with the most recent generation. They think that they're entitled to everything they want and that they will get everything they want. Parents work so much that they feel guilty about not spending time with their kids and so end up doing chores that the kids should be doing and buying them whatever they want. I see the same attitudes with the kids at my school and it's kind of infuriating.

Yep....kids have to know that No is No!

The aunt was being very reasonable, and teaching the kid a good lesson about life.

Yeah I've been to some good raves myself lately