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the crazies

When I mention to people that I’m not the most stable of persons, I get one of two reactions. The first is more common: they don’t believe me. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard, “Really? But you seem so normal!” I could…at least buy a value meal from McDonald’s. When I [ READ MORE ]

internet anxiety

I’ve joined an rpg. This wasn’t exactly a light decision, and I spent many hours reading, rereading, and obsessing over how exactly this game works. Eventually, I just sucked it up and sent in my application, expecting to not hear back from the moderator for a while so that I would be afforded extra worry [ READ MORE ]

aspie or not: dexter

There are plenty of characters that are kind of off. But sometimes, that kind-of-offness reads as an underlying condition. And sometimes, that underlying condition is Asperger’s. It’s kind of fun analyzing characters that aren’t of my own creation in that way. I’ve been a writer for a long, long time, and character development is one [ READ MORE ]

girls and assburgers

I read this article on Psychology Today a while ago about a woman with Asperger’s, and how different women with the condition are than their male counterparts. The whole thing is pretty fascinating, and I found myself identifying with a lot of what it said about the girl, Kiriana. Kiriana’s similar strategy amounts to remembering [ READ MORE ]

assburgers

[Note: Originally posted on my livejournal and shamelessly copied and pasted here, because I'm lazy.] My mother always described me as gullible. I would take anything she, or anyone else, said at face value, no matter how absurd. Eventually, rather than accept statements blindly, I made sure to ask, “Really?” first. Usually I was rewarded [ READ MORE ]

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