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Before about eighth grade, I had absolutely no concept of the term "acquaintance." I thought everyone I'd ever met was a friend unless they proved otherwise.

Would be great if that were true. I think u touch on a key feature. My sons are like this too. My eldr walks up to ppl n takes their hand n studf. I think the worlds reactions and. Ways make it go out of our system but deep down it is still there. Which is why one gets so depressed n disappointed when it is proved otherwise.

I think I do that too ..but less.

Maybe what u do naturally is more blatant maybe u truly showed absolute trust etc like in williams syndrome which btw is a great example on how there can be a different way than the hate and yuckiness that proliferates.
Among people.. were u shy still or were u just fully friendly from the get go?


I remember my grade five teacher Mr Coggan who told us his secret identity was Mr cobweb.. because he loved batman... he dressed as Zorro for halloween though, and he had a girlfriend and I used to wish he would marry her as I didnt like the idea of there not being a Mrs Coggan.

HE took me aside from class to step outside then to ask if I had any friends and I said yes and named all the students in my class even though I knew logically they didnt think of me as a friend I still cared and thought of them as. As that and paid attention.

I even helped my bullies on tests occasionally as I kne they wd think I was doing it for popularity or something but I wouldnt soeak to them afterwards as I knew they wanted to distance from me..

But in that grade there were no bullies.
Mr Coggan... because it was the gifted type grade but not entirely..

But I also didn't want him to feel sorry for me if I said no ...and I felt pride and didnt want to feel humiliated by saying nobody thinks I am their friend. It’s just me who Is their friend.

Then he said alright.

I masked and pretended I was smiling etc it was fake but he believed me then Ithink.. he did not bring it up again.

But I miss him ..

Bcuz he was a truly good teacher as well as being funny and witty and charismatic so u did not want to disappoint him.. he was an example of an ideal Canadian.


He was dark but his brother was light. They were Spanish in their background.


His brother had a car he called the batmobile. Mr Coggan would feature his brother and his brothers bat mobile in Math Questions sometimes.

For a reward mr coggan wd have his brother visit us..if we were exceptionally good in grades and the boys got to take a ride in his batmobile .

The brother was very VERY cool and interesting which is why everyone in the class saw it as a treat.

he did a Q Nd A where we got to ask him questions. The boys really admired mr coggans brother. He was very witty and funny too. But I thought mr coggan was funnier actually esp since he did it in a dry, serious way. Like classic british humour

Oh and the reason the girls saw it as a treat was because they thought his brother was very handsome and hot. I knew logically he was but I didnt have a crush on him like the others. The girls were Sharon, Claire, Melody who was Egyptian yet had an English name, and Caitlin, and then me. There were more boys in that class than girls. Sharon and Claire were in grade six.

it was a combined grade of five and six...

since we were considered more gifted than our age group .. but the actual gifted class were more gifted than us.

I'm going to retire soon. This working every day is getting old before I get old.

I was actually pretty shy and had (still do, actually) selective mutism. I often had other kids asking me why I didn't talk. But in addition to not understanding the concept of an acquaintance, it also never occurred to me that others might not feel the same way about me. Even if we never played together during recess and never did anything together outside of school, I was convinced all my classmates as well as my teachers were my friends and that if asked, they would also say they were my friends. I really just didn't have any classification of relationships beyond "friend" and "foe," and people had to earn their way onto the "foe" list, so if they hadn't done that, then they must be a friend.

That makes sense the shyness. I wonder how it would be to not be shy.


If u werent cautious or shy at all then I would think you sounded similar to some people with Williams syndrome I watched on YouTube...they are fascinating with how they cope ...it’s good to listen to as it gives u strength to keep going knowing how they do it...

they are gifted in their spirit that doesnt seem despondent health issues, learning disablities etc, if I were facing somethign like that (open heart surgery) I wouldnt be like that.


I would love to know a person like the ppl with williams syndrome I listened to on youtube as they have a lot of emotional strength

I suck at making definitive decisions, even if they seem like an obvious choice in hindsight.

All I do is eat sleep and play video games. But I have weekends off and I am my own boss.

I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

I know the feeling.

Think you need a hug.

(Hug)

Everyone belongs on the world, you're just being made to believe you don't.

A truth about me: I am most definitely an infj and not an isfj.

I only believe in 'live and let live' when it doesn't conflict with my personal moral code and values.

I still like Radiohead.

I love baking but I hate cooking (if that makes sense)

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so f****n' special

Radiohead

I have a long way to go before I am educated enough to get where I need to go and to do what must be done