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Within my own life I'd like to go back to my very early childhood to clarify a few things and to recall what things / places / people looked like. I have some important questions about my childhood and no way to answer them otherwise.

Beyond my life I'd like to go to rural England, pre-industrialisation (early 19C). Although, as kortie says I would add air conditioning. Yup. I need my air.

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I may like to be at the beginning of human life here, but I'm not.
Questions like that aren't answerable.

Would you be willing to give up all this tech technology our society makes now?

Do you mean electronic tech like computers, smartphones, smart appliances, etc or do you mean mechanical items in general including vehicles, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, medical technology?

If the internet crashed worldwide as well as cell phone communications and basic societal structure (fire, police, ambulance, rule of law, national sovereignty, etc) remained intact, my life wouldn't be ruined. I would adjust.

Would I want to go back to pre-Industrial Revolution? No.

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I can't fathom life before the printing press.

Do you prefer hot sandwiches or cold?

It depends on the sandwich. I don't like hot "submarine"/"hoagie" sandwiches, but a grilled cheese or egg sandwich must be hot.

Can I tell a quick egg sandwich story?

Many years ago when I was young I was employed delivering small printing jobs on foot to various offices in the tall buildings in downtown Minneapolis. One morning I was starving and stopped at a McDonald's to buy an "Egg McMuffin" sandwich to bring back to the shop and eat it. I put the egg sandwich in the pocket of my coat, delivered my last parcel on one of the top floors of the tallest building in Minneapolis and on the way down in the elevator, being alone, I could not resist taking a few bites of the egg sandwich. The elevator started to slow to a stop to pick up another passenger. I felt embarrassed eating in the elevator, so I quickly re-wrapped the egg sandwich and stuffed it in my coat just as the elevator doors opened. A woman stepped into the elevator. Neither of us said a word to each other, but toward the end of the elevator ride, in an overly dramatic way, she fully extended an arm straight out in front of her, raised her hand, brought it to her nose forcefully and held her nose shut with her fingers while walking out of the elevator that way. It didn't occur to me until I was walking away that she had no idea where the smell was coming from and thought it was coming from me rather than from my sandwich.

Do you like melons and if so, what is your favorite kind to eat?

Good on you for not eating hot food in public, but having it in your pocket is funny. The lady was rude, regardless.

I actually have an abject aversion to melons.

I used to like them but I lost my appetite for them quite suddenly in the 90s , and it never came back.

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I do like watermelon and cantaloupe aka muskmelon, but only if they're ripe and of good quality which is getting more difficult to find.

Have you ever had a bacon wrapped fig? I have not, but in Atypical, Sam and Casey's Mom says she's going to make each person's favorite food and thinks bacon wrapped figs are Casey's favorite food (which Casey said she no longer ate pork)

No, but I have bacon-wrapped roasted water chestnuts every Christmas.

The figs sound good too.

I'm going to read now.
Ciao for now!

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No.

Do you play an instrument?

I do not.

What's your favorite book?

Honestly I think "To Kill A Mockingbird" is my favorite.

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That is a consistently difficult thing to answer, eh?. My 'default' answer is 'Flowers for Algernon' as far as novels go b/c there is so much to it. I enjoyed 'The goddess of small victories' for it's ambitious premise of a take on Kurt Godel's wife having to bear him. I like Ted Chiang short stories. 'El señor presidente'/'The Mr.President' by Miguel Angel Asturias was significant to me being the first novel I read entirely in Spanish but there was low key novel like 'Benjamin' by Maria Cecilia Zuniga which I liked for it's take on someone who probably had an 'ambitious mental disorder' and struggled with relationships and 'El club de los aburridos'/'The club of the bored ones' by Jessica Masaya was crass and probably as close to what I have encountered to be like 'transgressive literature' about urban living struggles like but in Spanish. My opinions on literature have been shifting recently. I haven't mentioned poetry or non-fiction.

Watching nostalgic reviews of old anime shows (or long review videos like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgAcFTy05eE) make me inclined to do stimming. What makes you stim if at all?.

I can't not stim. I stim all day, every day, and even in my sleep. It isn't always to alleviate stress; it's just enjoyable!

Do you demonstrate echolalia?

Echolalia, sometimes

Boredom and stress make me stim. Stim:. Eat, crack knuckles

Favorite book, "hygiene and the assassin"


Melon is okay

Depends on what kind of sandwich. Some cold, some hot. Usually do not eat sandwich

Used to play clarinet fifth grade




What activities did you suddenly lose interest in and why and how

Horror movies. Because most of them are garbage with too much blood and sex and the acting and special effects are so fake.

I still like the the true classics like Night of the Living Dead and Carrie though.

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...how can I answer this without bringing up religion?. Reading I suppose b/c I am more secure of how literate I am and how it factors into how time is spent, poetry has waned with it and in a sense job searching. At least in how I no longer have the same sense of 'desperation' as I did before and would actually like to keep it that way. I like to think that my interest in exercising is the same as before and more often learning to drive seems 'more comfortably unappealing to me'. Self-acceptance ?.

If someone told you "Well maybe you should ask yourself if school is right for you" how would you react?.