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I'm sorry to hear that. It's exactly the same for me so I can imagine how you feel; it's very stressful.

((HUGS))

^ hugs to you too.

The mutism they don't get, but they passive aggressively tolerate it nowadays




What activities have you spent a lot of energy on, and you are very bad at?

Nearly all of the autism-related issues have cost me wasted energy.
For example, I'm still very bad at

- eye contact
- reading and using body language effectively
- inference
- understanding and expressing emotion in person (vs. in writing)
- executive function (starting or finishing anything)
- being sociable and maintaining conversations
- self-advocacy
- reading other people's intentions or their gestures
- being succinct in written form
- expanding on anything beyond hello in verbal form
- switching between activities or thought processes
- being flexible
- initiating contact with people
- maintaining friendships in real life

In a non-autism general sense (if such a thing exists in my life), I've spent a lot of time trying to get over the past.

It doesn't work.

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Not interrupting and knowing when it is my turn to tak.

What have you done that you thought was impossible?

Finding myself my first real relationship that my family still doesn't know about.

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I got out of an extremely abusive relationship which was nearly impossible to escape.

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Hmm... I guess in my volunteer work, serving to the capacity where I greet people and hand out refreshments during certain times of the year, all without making a fool of myself (I do make some mistakes sure, but it's not a disaster). Heck, at one point volunteering with a group of people in general was something I never thought I would end up doing.

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on the stairways of strange qualifiers
must you have thought of impossible beforehand? or does afterward count too?

standing up to a thug with a gun, not to all but only one once

going through horizontal-icepick* snowstorms to find lost sheep (* Deighton or Le Carré?)

pulling dead lamb out of the womb, very disgusting

pulling dead sheep out of big fields (only by 'man'power)


Q ; have you eaten something so much you got sick from it?

Yes, I was pregnant and went to see the last Lord of the Rings movie in the theater as the last feature in an all day LOTR movie event (it was all three movies with the new one last). It was super amazing and came with all you can eat popcorn. I ate so much popcorn that just the smell or thought of it made me sick for years.

Who is you absolute favorite author and why?

What have you done that you thought was impossible?

Live.

Who is you absolute favorite author and why?

It's a three way tie: Terry Pratchett, because he's awesome and a great sense of humour seems hard to come by these days; Diana Wynne Jones, for the same reasons; and Neil Gaiman, because he goes to where few authors dare.

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Judy Blume because without her I couldn't have grown up (theoretically speaking)

Emily Brontë for discussing the undiscussed, and for using the most complex literary technique I know

Charlotte Brontë for creating Lucy Snowe, my autistic heroine

George Eliot for creating Middlemarch and for being countercultural

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It might not be very chaotic, but I've seen lids on dumpsters melt during the summer.
If you could travel back in time to whenever you want, where would you go.

I would go back to my very early childhood but have my current level of awareness. Rather like the Ghost of Christmas Past being able to survey their own life.

When was the last time you told someone you loved them? (verbally, not in written form)

Yeah that does seem really interesting. Hmm like family or what? Because I told my mother that I love her in person on Thursday before she left town, but otherwise I think the last time was in mid-August when I told a girl that I was beyond flirting with but wasn't quite dating yet that I loved her.

I'm actually blinking into the air right now, wondering what my answer would be. I'm not sure. I may have told my nephew last weekend when he was injured and in hospital but I'm not positive because I went into problem solving mode instead of emotional mode. I really don't know. I'll think about it.

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Edit:
I make a point of saying I love you to my dog every day, if that counts.
Also, I checked with my nephew and he confirms that I said I love you more than once when he was injured. (whew).

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