Revisiting Sunnyvale,California like it is the first time!

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Describe Your Childhood to Adolesence?
Happy and well supported emotionally! 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Happy and well supported emotionally! 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Kind of happy and supported emotionally! 15%  15%  [ 4 ]
Kind of happy and supported emotionally! 15%  15%  [ 4 ]
Not happy and not supported emotionally? 27%  27%  [ 7 ]
Not happy and not supported emotionally? 27%  27%  [ 7 ]
Miserable and I want to see others suffer! 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Miserable and I want to see others suffer! 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Don't Know? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Don't Know? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Dishoused emotionally, Physically, bodily? 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Dishoused emotionally, Physically, bodily? 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Pray your soul to keep! and not see another day? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Pray your soul to keep! and not see another day? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 26

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14 May 2005, 4:02 pm

1)...The Question?

"Describe your childhood if you choose!"

2)...Statements by Ghosthunter!

To start this train of thought I must thank
WrongPlanet for existing. I started this
darkcave journer when my employer outed
me of my autism unawareness almost 3 months
ago. I am 38.75 years old and lived in a terrible
silence and life paths that could have led to much
darker paths, just read my past posts and you
you will see. I have repeated alot of parrot
like behaviors, such as comics, sexuality,
hiding behind my computer and never understood
what it was that made me live in a dark, silent
world.

It was my study in Wicca, my sexual prowless and
exploring, Rocky Horror Picture Show exploitations,
being a comic book dealer at age 20-24, and being
without love in my heart and not understanding why
I felt more at peace in sleeping in alleyways,
abandoned buildings, behind office buildings, and
always keeping things to a minium.

I still hide behind this computer, and computers
would have been a natural evolution for me now
that I am thinking about it. Let the healing begin.

A Poem wrote:
Drops of blood drip from my brain like that of of
cloudy days, but now their is no pain. I see the
dark corners huddled in sleep and wonder why
I hide from people behind your space of dwelling.

Friendship? What is that indeed. I see the users
eyes stare at me tapping this wisdom without
glee but malicious intent. You smile and say
it's ok, as I must skulk by midnight to find my
place to stay, and you just chuckl, it's just him,
Oh! Well! let's role a D-8 and I will mutilate
your troll, as your life of selfishness goes on.

Be my friend, pleading in my eye's, it's ok
if you abuse me at least I feel something to
my suprise. Starry eye'd child in a picture
old and cobwebbed of my mother and a
starry eye'd child equally distant in her stead.

I wander the streets of Sunnyvale, see your
beams of wealth drive by, as I go to my
meager job, or jobs and wonder why?
Why must I tear stained sleep in the cave
of your building so eye's can't see me, and
yet I feel comfort just the same.

Huddled in corners of houses gone by, their
creaking staircases forgotten, so am I.
Oh! old house I shower you with my love,
this silent spirit commune with the much
neglected ghosts in the room above.

Standing on the corner of Mary and Elcamino,
I see your rolling luxories roll by, your vacant
insensitive stares just stare at me and rollup
and you stroll by. Four quarters equal a dollar
I will say, and some will give and then go away.

Starvation of the soul is like starvation of the
body and emotion. I see you shun, and spurn
me as a lost cause, I then walk silently to
the stairs above, unseen to sleep I hope my
final sleep, yet to keep, and my soul to still
keep.

These are the things that Sunnyvale brings
to me so I go to San Francisco to see my keep.
I see a aids person craving for love and all
I can do is comfort and not sleep. Compasionate
hearts, there were none. I know see Sunnyvale
in i past rising sun.



I write this to let myself and you folks know how
I feel when I am here. The endless caves of dark
I slept, in hopes people would go away instead.
I see homelessness again soon, but this time with
piece of mind that I am whole, my soul to keep,
and I feel, and can be kind.

Ages 15-34, and about my feelings in Sunnyvale,
Santa Clara county for 1981-2000. I will not repeat
and go not to the hostel, and hope I have a job still.
If not a job is their for me, I see greater gain in
understanding me

3)...The Question Repeated!

"Describe your childhood if you choose!" :roll:



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14 May 2005, 4:29 pm

Wow! You were a comic book dealer? I am a MASSIVE comic fan, you can probably tell from my avatar! In fact , I read too many comics.



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14 May 2005, 6:38 pm

Ghosthunter wrote:
Ages 15-34, and about my feelings in Sunnyvale,
Santa Clara county for 1981-2000. I will not repeat
and go not to the hostel, and hope I have a job still.
If not a job is their for me, I see greater gain in
understanding me


I really admire this. So many people worry and obsess and drive themselves to misery over money, but here, from a background of silent houses and dark corners, you know what matters more. I didn't understand why you hated gamers so much... but now this makes more sense.

A few fragments of story:
My family was never short on money; parents never divorced; by all appearances I had the perfect childhood. Yet somehow, by the time I was twelve, I was living invisible out of fear of any words or situations that might get through to emotions and make me react. I took refuge in school bathrooms to escape people's eyes and voices and sounds. "Don't take things so seriously!" ... "Why do you let them bother you?" ... "It's not a big deal, why are you so upset?" ... I try to explain, through art, through creative writing ... "That's just cheesy." I fall into frustration and overload and yell, they pin me down until I can smile up at them and tell them everything's just fine. "I'm not hurting you. How dare you say such a thing. If I was hurting you, you'd bloody well know it."

When I was 14, I wrote this, though I never really understood what it meant till recently, and haven't ever shared it.

a child sits by a rippled pool
a pale face and pale hair
waiting, watching, dreaming
in the water the face is older
like a raven before the sparrows
rising, hoping, seeing

but a swan glides through the shifting ripples
an eagle's shadow blocks the sky
soaring, wheeling, flying
the path of the swan remains, disturbing
fragments of memory tearing, swirling
broken, shrunken, gone

the river of time sweeps up the child
the pool is gone, the image dead
drowning, struggling, sinking
sparrows behind grow teeth, leap forward
current grows strong, the child surrounded
helpless, hopeless, mindless

the vampire blood engulfs her, chokes her
until she is one of them.



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14 May 2005, 9:06 pm

I say thankyou for replying. I want to
say positive. I cannot. I can only say
lose the burden(you-know-who) before
you become older and realize it is to late
better to make the changes younger,
and not lose the opportunity for change,
then wait until your older and lose track
on how. You see it's clarity(you and
you-know-who) and live before you
realize it is too late. You will probly
hate me for saying this, but I don't
want you to make bad decisions and
get stuck with them. Lose the weight
and regain yourself, and only you can
do it. My advice and advice of others
won't. I may struggle, but I am willing
to bleed for my betterment then with
clarity enact(look beyond bleeding,
and allow acceptance of this is who I
really am).

Until then danger lurks in every path,
and as you get older and commitments
overwhelm you, LOOK OUT it will reappear,
but it becomes more difficult to change
it. Clarity and awareness go hand and
hand. Wipe the chalk board clean if
opportunity reveals itself through you
for you betterment. DON'T BE 38 AND
realize it.

Most unpleasnantly spoken,
and ENACT IT, not just bleed it.
Ghosthunter to Pyraxis.



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14 May 2005, 9:16 pm

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Wow! You were a comic book dealer? I am
a MASSIVE comic fan, you can probably tell
from my avatar! In fact , I read too many
comics.


Yes, I and my partner in business drove a
oversized Ford Econoline Van(extended one)
every weekend. He did toys, and such.
I did the Goldenage comics, Silverage Comics.


Gems of my S.A collection: Mind You it was 1990!
#1 F.F(3 copies overall)
#1 Spiderman(4 copies overall)
#15 Am. Fant(3 copies overall)
#4 Showcace(2 copies overall)
and a mix bag of the top 10 of the day(S.A titles)

Gems of my G.A collection: Again it was 1990!

#2 Wonderwoman
#1 Batman(restored vg, otherwise taped copy)
#5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11-and up Superman
Mixed bag of Allstars
Mixed bag of Timely's(Sub'm, Capt'A, H.T,
Marv' Myst')
Mixed bag of off titles(Capt'Marv', Plasticman,
Green Hornet, ect.....)

I am glad you show interest in this topic and collect
because you like to.

Sincerely,
Ghosthunter



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14 May 2005, 9:19 pm

Ghosthunter,

Check your PMs. :-)



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14 May 2005, 9:42 pm

Ghosthunter wrote:
Gems of my S.A collection: Mind You it was 1990!
#1 Spiderman(4 copies overall)

Do you still have all 4 copies?


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14 May 2005, 9:55 pm

That was 15 years ago. Sniff! Sniff!
If I had kept what was remaining
in my inventory? Hmmmmm?

Currently I have #28 Action,
#25 & 45 Green Hornet, Shadow Comics
V'7 #10 with a cool cover!, and my
only favorite run KID COLT*(1948-1979)
#9, #13, #219, and of course my variety
of $1-$5 12¢cover to 35¢ titles(Mix bag)
four Color #496(Green Hornet), #544
(Rob Roy), ©56' era Looney Tunes.

I have always liked comics(prefered 10¢
covers). Last years flea finds were
Tarzan(©50'-55' issues at $5 each),
and a mix bag of 30 10¢ cover Dells
that took me 6 months to build until
I sold it off for a Visa Payment.


Sincerely,
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14 May 2005, 10:48 pm

I like comics, but they're overpriced,

To get back on topic, my childhood was depressing, from what I can remember of it. I seem to have lots of repressed memories trying to resurface on occassion. Anyways, I'm just going to cut and paste an old post of mine.


Quote:
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I was dx'ed and the un-dx'ed with Autism. They changed it to Hypersensitive, ADHD, and OCD. I had a friend or two, and didn't socialize that well. I was also (like I still am) bad at joking. I never knew hot to sound sarcastic. I don't remember about eye contact. I was very hyper and aggressive. I've been told that I'd do crazy things like climb bookshelfs at stores. My brother was born. I then moved.

7-11

My mom says I used to wash my hands until I bled. I don't remmber that. I was bullied often, but I became somewhat of a gang leader. A bully would pick on me, then I'd kick their as* and they decided to be friends with me. I also remember being naive and believing stories people told me. One of my best friends always told these outlandish stories, and I'd believe him. It wasn't until years later that I figured out he was a big liar. I also remember my first mutual female friend very well. She wasn't my first crush, but I protected her from bullies. I remember her having an Atari. This is also when a few of my prejudices came into existence. I moved.

11-14

This is a bad period of my life. My parents divorced, my dad married his second wife ( Evil or Very Mad hated me). This is when I fell into a huge two year depression. Puberty started, socialzing was hard, and my parents divorced. I took Prozac and Adderal until I was 14. My social skills weren't as good as they once were. I think this depression may have made me have AS, or at least make it more obvious. I was very verbally abusive to my mom and my little brother. My little brother (ADD) was about 4 or 5 when my parents divorced, so he doesn't remember. I was very tempermental and had mood swings at home. At school, I had just entered middle school, and was picked on often by girls. I live in a mostly wealthy community, and so there were a lot of snobs. I was normally picked on by girls, because I flirted on accident occasionally and had a very weird walk. I only had about 5 friends during this period, and it was only in school. I was dx'ed with AS during this period.

14-16 (now)

I finally mellowed out and am no longer picked on. When I first entered high school, I still had my social facade. My second year, I went through a huge depression after being rejected by someone. I went off to find myself and adjust my personality. Stopped medications of any kind, and grades started slipping. I failed any language I tried to take, and so my GPA is not very good. I had no good friends until my second year. I'm now in my third year, and I'm doing alright. I still have trouble with eye contact, and can't stand being surrounded by people, but I'm living still.


Hope I help in some way? :D


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14 May 2005, 11:48 pm

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I like comics, but they're overpriced,

To get back on topic, my childhood was
depressing, from what I can remember of
it. I seem to have lots of repressed memories
trying to resurface on occassion. Anyways,
I'm just going to cut and paste an old post of
mine.


Quote:

0-6

I was dx'ed and the un-dx'ed with Autism.
They changed it to Hypersensitive, ADHD,
and OCD. I had a friend or two, and didn't
socialize that well. I was also (like I still am)
bad at joking. I never knew hot to sound
sarcastic. I don't remember about eye contact.
I was very hyper and aggressive. I've been told
that I'd do crazy things like climb bookshelfs at
stores. My brother was born. I then moved.

7-11

My mom says I used to wash my hands until
I bled. I don't remmber that. I was bullied often,
but I became somewhat of a gang leader.
A bully would pick on me, then I'd kick their as*
and they decided to be friends with me. I also
remember being naive and believing stories
people told me. One of my best friends always
told these outlandish stories, and I'd believe him.
It wasn't until years later that I figured out he
was a big liar. I also remember my first mutual
female friend very well. She wasn't my first crush,
but I protected her from bullies. I remember her
having an Atari. This is also when a few of my
prejudices came into existence. I moved.

11-14

This is a bad period of my life. My parents divorced,
my dad married his second wife ( Evil or Very Mad
hated me). This is when I fell into a huge two year
depression. Puberty started, socialzing was hard,
and my parents divorced. I took Prozac and Adderal
until I was 14. My social skills weren't as good as they
once were. I think this depression may have made
me have AS, or at least make it more obvious. I was
very verbally abusive to my mom and my little brother.
My little brother (ADD) was about 4 or 5 when my
parents divorced, so he doesn't remember. I was very
tempermental and had mood swings at home. At school,
I had just entered middle school, and was picked on
often by girls. I live in a mostly wealthy community,
and so there were a lot of snobs. I was normally picked
on by girls, because I flirted on accident occasionally
and had a very weird walk. I only had about 5 friends
during this period, and it was only in school. I was
dx'ed with AS during this period.

14-16 (now)

I finally mellowed out and am no longer picked on.
When I first entered high school, I still had my social
facade. My second year, I went through a huge
depression after being rejected by someone. I went
off to find myself and adjust my personality. Stopped
medications of any kind, and grades started slipping.
I failed any language I tried to take, and so my GPA is
not very good. I had no good friends until my second
year. I'm now in my third year, and I'm doing alright.
I still have trouble with eye contact, and can't stand
being surrounded by people, but I'm living still.

Hope I help in some way?


Yes, We all are here to help each other. The fact you
stopped your meds for self-discovery is good. Internal
focus is key to growth. This is wy put myself through
bleeding cycles.

What do you do in this weird walk? I walk weird and
that is natural for me, and screw the NT's who want
to not fake myself. Seen that and done that.

Did getting off meds and going to school with ok grades
work? What type of grades? What was the withdraw like?
How long did it take to get out of withdraws? How's the
Depression situation now? What wealthy are do you
live in? For here in Sunnyvale, it is Palo Alto, and
Los Altos.

Most inquisitively,
Ghosthunter