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Everyday Life
I've been awake for an hour, another nightmare - they're back again!
I'm somewhere, in a lounge.. I see her moving around, doing things, looking for something she's put down.
She's getting angry because the state of the place means she can't find it - she never does any housework, I'll have a...
The marriage, the emotional abuse and the kids.
I'm crying because I've had a typical - and then some - sunday's travail of taking my ten year old home to his mother.
The verbal cues are usually apparent to me from early afternoon, but I'm always post-aware of.. signs.. attitude.. early in the...
If I don't figure this out, I may not be human. What is a family, and how do you make one? Why do we make them? Why do we miss them? What do we do--literally--what do we do without them?
Family is like democracy. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the...
I went to the doctor today. It was productive.
I'm just going to try to summarize via bullet points and micro-vignettes some of the things I conveyed [though I'm sure that will still get a little lengthy].
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Receptionist: Are you feeling ok?
Me: Uh. hot. I'm... HOT. I'm hot. I'm really...
The only social system where I've felt comfortable is the family I have now, and it's small. Today my son leaves for a two-week trip and I am aware that it will be very quiet. The Empty Nest isn't here yet, but I can feel the tremors for it. My son is older, hairier, more confident, and the...
We are more alike than we are different. Aren't we? And yet, the differences are important, so important that we choose our friends and lovers by them, declare enmities based on them, and develop passionate convictions along these lines we draw in the sand. What don't we like about the fact that...
My name is Graydon hall, I am 17, I was diagnosed at age 16 with Asperger's syndrome by a doctor, along with depression, anxiety and mild OCD, I have interests including music, elevators, mental health facilities and communism, I hope that this place will help me to make new friends on a social...
One of the things I love about AspiesCentral is that it is a very welcoming, accepting place. That is not a common thing on the web. (I could comment further on that, and once upon a time I probably would have spent a few thousand words expounding on the subject, but that time is no longer.) I...
my summer-standin "backing/supporter in daily living" (a contribution/support financed by the "state";) which i asked for and want + need.)
Came today with "the" comment: you need to find friends (since i don't have any).
I do like this individual that send this earlier today.
But it seems like...
It's been odd, watching management readjust to realizing that my needs might be different, and require a little adjustment in their parts.
Yesterday, the debacle over my OT issue had been resolved; I'll get comp time, pretty much at my own discretion, if I just "shave" days--an hour here, two...
As some of you might know from the past few months ago when I posted about it; my mom has been transferred to a carehome, since she’s not able to live at home anymore. The care she needs is too intensive to provide here with all the therapies she has and as time passes and my dad and she visit...
A particularly interesting private conversation lead me to write something I'd like to make a little more public, and take in a direction other than the conversation went.
My new owner--er, employer--...(sigh). Freudian slips are so interesting, aren't they?
My new employer mandates diversity...
I am having a terrific case of Happy Art; I gave up perfection and stopped rating my craftsmanship. Instead I thought about writing with as few words as possible, pouring all the ideas into it, then paring them down, and leaving a splendid array of profligate puns and dead-ends. I love this...
When you ask me what my favorite movie is, I shrug. In a long history of film throughout the world and all the film that will come in the hereafter, no one above the age of fifteen can accurately tell you what their favorite film is because it would be impossible to have just one. If you ask me...
I have a lot of ideas floating around in my mind that are like whisps of smoke - they don't have a defined form. They are also similar to the visual of the wisp of smoke in the form of images and physical feelings.
(I don't think feeling is the most accurate word to describe what I experience...
"Art saves lives" is the tagline for one of the art schools in my area, and I believe that to be literally true. How it goes about saving a life merits a thoughtful look at what life requires of us, and we of it, to make it rewarding, or at least bearable in the rough spots.
I had a job once...
Christmas fancy dress might be a simple pantsuit or perhaps an official golf ball dress. The actual gold guideline would to your clothes to the occasion. Do not b or overdressed even. Because of the holiday joyful environment, you have an opportunity to present their own brilliant ensemble and...
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Nephew's first birthday. Was thanked profusely and repeatedly for helping with kids and taking stress off of mom and dad.
Father's birthday. Good, but he's not well.. He has congestive heart failure and water retention is a big problem. He's getting worse and has already gone to the...