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24 Feb 2010, 12:17 pm

good point...except in my case I can get so obsessed with the script replaying over and over in my mind that I cant sleep or it is hard to focus on daily things. I try not to script at all because of that and after all that I do not carry the script through anyway....so whats the point


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24 Feb 2010, 3:57 pm

dtoxic wrote:
For most of my life (the pre-DX part) I falsely assumed that people only had conversations to impart information to one another, and that the words used were the only form of communication.


oh jesus christ. That's exactly it, isn't it. Thanks for articulating that, except now I'm having the same revelation you did about the weirdoness of me. F*ck.