This is generally my style in relationships

[Jonn]

Spoiler: music clip

We all have different personalities and ways of expressing ourselves.
We meet a challenge and define our own solutions to the best of our abilities at the time.
Sometimes we are successful, and at other times, not so much...
Experience helps...

What is your thang?

Keep in mind:
Not everything in videos or articles may represent a person's personal views, but it does provide an opportunity for discussion.

You may criticise my approach...but...

Spoiler: joke

I reserve the right to smack you one.

 

[Coxhere]

Spoiler: music clip

We all have different personalities and ways of expressing ourselves.
We meet a challenge and define our own solutions to the best of our abilities at the time.
Sometimes we are successful, and at other times, not so much...
Experience helps...

What is your thang?

Keep in mind:
Not everything in videos or articles may represent a person's personal views, but it does provide an opportunity for discussion.

You may criticise my approach...but...

Spoiler: joke

I reserve the right to smack you one.

"We all have different personalities and ways of expressing ourselves."

Do you think that one's personality and ways of self-expression can change depending upon both internal and external circumstances? Are all parts of one's personality and ways of expression displayed all at once? And there was (is) a thread regarding one wearing "masks." What about one's wearing masks that hide parts of one's personality and ways of expressing one's self?

 

[RemyZee]

Spoiler: music clip

We all have different personalities and ways of expressing ourselves.
We meet a challenge and define our own solutions to the best of our abilities at the time.
Sometimes we are successful, and at other times, not so much...
Experience helps...

What is your thang?

Keep in mind:
Not everything in videos or articles may represent a person's personal views, but it does provide an opportunity for discussion.

You may criticise my approach...but...

Spoiler: joke

I reserve the right to smack you one.

love that song

 

[Jonn]

At the beginning of the relationship with my first G/F, I travelled 12 hours round trip to post a letter in the local postbox.
To say she was impressed is an understatement.

12 hours at an average speed of 120 kph = 1,440 km = 894.7745 miles.
Close to 1,000 miles, but no cigars.

 

[Coxhere]

At the beginning of the relationship with my first G/F, I travelled 12 hours round trip to post a letter in the local postbox.
To say she was impressed is an understatement.

12 hours at an average speed of 120 kph = 1,440 km = 894.7745 miles.
Close to 1,000 miles, but no cigars.

And you say, Jonn, that it was a "local" postbox???? Almost 450 miles away?

That first G/F was impressed. Did that first G/F turn into anything more serious?

 

[Jonn]

And you say, Jonn, that it was a "local" postbox???? Almost 450 miles away?

That first G/F was impressed. Did that first G/F turn into anything more serious?

The relationship never had a chance, but I didn't know it at the time.
She was a very good woman.

 

[Coxhere]

The relationship never had a chance, but I didn't know it at the time.
She was a very good woman.

And you were a very bad boy!

 

[Jonn]

And you were a very bad boy!

I was autistic and was ritually psychologically abused when I was 5, and developed a dissociative disorder as a result, which separated me from reality, so no.

The relationship never had a chance.

 

[Coxhere]

I was autistic and was ritually psychologically abused when I was 5, and developed a dissociative disorder as a result, which separated me from reality, so no.

The relationship never had a chance.

I meant that as a joke. You were not and you are not a "bad boy." I'm sorry that I said this even as a joke. I was physically, verbally, emotionally abused throughout my childhood too. I was targeted more than my siblings because I was "different." And different was very bad. My first memories were of an alcoholic father perpetrating domestic violence throughout the house where I was forced to live. He continued this kind of behavior unabatedly and Mother didn't protect me or my siblings. She said that I must "respect" my father. Really?

All of us left home as soon as we were able. We were all 17 when we left that kind of environment. I've never been diagnosed as a dissociative disorder. But I certainly dissociated and detached from the environment of my family of origin, Jonn. I dissociate from the world today and now via meditation. I was, however, diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress and Major Depressive Disordered. The traumas that I experienced in the U.S. Army only made the PTSD and MDD worse. If I don't dissociate and detach via meditation today, I get mired in the morass of a physical reality that is dark, intimidating, threatening, and evil.

 

[Jonn]

I meant that as a joke. You were not and you are not a "bad boy." I'm sorry that I said this even as a joke.

I knew it was a joke.
I simply took the opportunity to repeat my history.

All of us left home as soon as we were able. We were all 17 when we left that kind of environment.

I was damaged at school by a female teacher.
She was a small part in a much larger game.

I've never been diagnosed as a dissociative disorder. But I certainly dissociated and detached from the environment of my family of origin, Jonn. I dissociate from the world today and now via meditation. I was, however, diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress and Major Depressive Disordered.

You will find that many, if not most ppl on these autism websites have PTSD, myself included, but I manage it very well through emotional stabilisation techniques.

The traumas that I experienced in the U.S. Army only made the PTSD and MDD worse. If I don't dissociate and detach via meditation today, I get mired in the morass of a physical reality that is dark, intimidating, threatening, and evil.

I have the mute button, and Zaphod's peril glasses for that.

Spoiler

Yes, it is a nasty world out there.
That is why I have turned to a stoic frame of mind.