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LifesNotFair
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15 Apr 2010, 3:52 pm

This looks like the right site for me to be spending my online time. Haven't looked around yet, but I will. So. "Hi everyone!"

Won't spend too long talking about myself here. I've been living with my Otherness for all my life and I'm kind of comfortable with it, at last. I'm quite solitary but hold down a job and keep myself occupied when not working. I know many people think I'm odd, but I've long got past caring and I've learnt that I can't get away with pretending I'm something that I'm not.

I love many kinds of music, my cat, my sister and nephew, my garden, solo travel, cooking, "Peep Show", cinema, reading, TV (my greatest vice), history and archaeology, astronomy and architecture. And day spas.

I hate my nose and the many and terrible faux pas I committed, completely unwittingly, in my youth which now reappear in terrible insightful flashback form at frequent intervals of every waking minute. I wish they wouldn't.



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15 Apr 2010, 4:59 pm

Greetings programs...

Doesn't that flashback memory thing SUCK? I hate that BIG time. Nice to share an affliction with you, friend :)

You should take a jaunt to Japan if you can stand travel. The day spas there (called Onsen) are the best in the world.

Anyway, welcome here!


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15 Apr 2010, 6:10 pm

Nice to meet you, LifesNotFair - welcome to the Wrong Planet community.


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15 Apr 2010, 6:36 pm

Welcome to WrongPlanet, and welcome to my time warp. :)


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15 Apr 2010, 11:00 pm

Welcome to WP!


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16 Apr 2010, 12:23 am

Welcome to the planet :)



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16 Apr 2010, 12:34 am

LifesNotFair wrote:
I've learnt that I can't get away with pretending I'm something that I'm not.


I hope that you've not became what some people might made you falsely believe you are... beaten down on yourself, while they boost themselves up another person's expense. Because of Asperger syndrome (and I was unaware I had it all my life) people treated me like an outcast, as though I had something wrong with me. I was the one who would speak the truth, even at risk of offending others. Naturally they didn't like me (I see this now). That (their resentment) was projected on me in a terrible way, and every time I looked in the mirror ... I was searching "what is wrong with me?" People had mixed opinion, but we tend to believe the bad things... and searching for anything that might explain why people treat us badly. But it is their negative projection, and not even that we're bad people or perhaps hadn't done anything "wrong"... but had really ticked off some people for doing the right thing. I think most Aspies intend to do the right thing.

LifesNotFair wrote:
I hate my nose and the many and terrible faux pas I committed, completely unwittingly, in my youth which now reappear in terrible insightful flashback form at frequent intervals of every waking minute. I wish they wouldn't.


Sounds like you've been oversensitized to things... and there's probably nothing wrong with your nose. Do you perceive yourself to be a perfectionist?

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16 Apr 2010, 2:32 am

Hello LifesNotFair, welcome, enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!


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16 Apr 2010, 3:59 am

ImageTo WrongPlanet!! !Image


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16 Apr 2010, 12:59 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet! :)