09 Jul 2005, 11:46 am
Fogman
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10 Jul 2005, 3:42 pm
If you wake up in your bedroom on a very windy and very rainy day, and feel depressed at your complete lack of a social life, and the fact that you're 24 and youy more or less bumming a room from your mom and her new husband who is precicely 6 months younger than you are. You finally pull yourself togeather to go out and attempt to socialise. --Moping around and staring at the walls is just too f---ing depressing.
You make the trip from Munjoy Hill, down to the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters on Temple St, getting completely drenched in the hopes that you might find some form of social contact with people that you know. As you head down, you notice some things are slightly amiss. It's a weekday, and there's less traffic than an Easter sunday, but you pay it no mind. You are dead set on getting you daily fix of Java, and the chance for intellectual stimulation. No go,
IT"S CLOSED!! !
No coffee today. Then you take a closer look around. All the windows have big X's of tape on them. The sign in the door of Green Mountain says "Closed due to storm." Yeah... whatever.
You need groceries anyways, so you head back up The Hill, hoping that the grocery store is at least open. Luckily it is. You get couple of loaves of LaBadie's Montreal style french bread, Cheese, tomatoes, a family pack of Jordan's red hotdogs some other stuff, and you head back home, attempt to dry out,Change clothes ,and eat. You look at your wall of books and realise that there's nothing ther you want to read. You know most of it by heart anyways, as you've read them all multiple times. Nothing in your sizable music collection you want to listen to either. You've heard them all many times, and you don't want to hear any more. Not now, at any rate. Strapping on the Guitar, and cranking up the 100 watt Marshall is out as well. You don't have the energy to play, and besides, those speakers in it just don't sound right.
You notice that the Rain has stopped, and you have to find some form of human contact, so you head out again. The wind has picked up though. Forboding clouds race across the sky, and as you get to Federal Street, you pause ,as you watch the green Vinyl siding peel away from somebody's house, and blow away. You head on, Destination West End ,up Federal to Monument Square, and then you head up Congress St, past Longfellow Square, the 7-11, to Dow St. up to the Apt, your freind Pat lives in.
He opens the door, invites you in, and talk about nothing in particular, drinking coffee and watching the News. It then dawns on you that you've spent a good part of the afternoon walking around in Hurricane Bob without even knowing of it. ---eeeeeeiiiiiiii!! !! !
This memory get's stimulated almost fourteen years later on a forum for people with AS. As I write it out, it comes back to life in crystal clear detail retrieve from whatever dark corner of mind that my subconscious reserves for Storage. Another Piece of the Puzzle drops into place. I am neither Happy relieved, or even frustrated. It just is
10 Jul 2005, 5:10 pm
When you can't understand as a teenager why other girls are so interested in make-up, boys, clothes and being popular as opposed to reading, enjoying nature, and listening to the radio.
When you're older and can't understand why other women are so obsessed about losing weight and getting plastic surgery (or thinking about it)
When you're in a music shop and you're about the only woman there: most of the other patrons are young men.
When people have always considered there was something a bit freaky about you but they never could really put a finger on what it was.
When you can't understand why other women would want to be a domestic slave and put their own needs last at all times.
When you want to be friends with other Aspies even if they are heaps younger than you and of the opposite sex because you find more in common with them than other women around your own age.
When you get really worked up about injustice in the world.
When your emotions are all tangled up and you can't seem to get them straight.
When you get left out of activities in the workplace because someone thinks it is a smart thing to organise other people against you.
When you can never answer a question with just "yes" or "no".
When you have trouble deciding what to order in the cafeteria because the things you'd like most are a bit expensive but the cheaper things are not so nice but then maybe you should save your money....
Dang, Pandora! Are you my long lost twin sister or something?
Hey, don't think of yourself as being "odd". Just look at yourself as one of the few women who've actually got some sense.
Bet you're like me and think high heels and nylons are of the devil.
10 Jul 2005, 5:57 pm
....If even your pastor wouldn't be your friend because you were an embarrassment to him. 
....If your "boyfriend" wouldn't take you out in public because he "has a reputation to uphold."
....If you think it's your fault and try everything to change their minds about you. 
....If lining up for lunch in school, everyone would play, "skip and skip back" which is when each person skips the one in front of you, then gets behind them, thereby "skipping back." Everyone ends up in front of you, making you the last person in line. And god forbid if you ask to do it too. 
11 Jul 2005, 8:46 am
Hey, don't think of yourself as being "odd". Just look at yourself as one of the few women who've actually got some sense.
Bet you're like me and think high heels and nylons are of the devil.
Well, we're triplets, then.
And yes, high heels and nylons are of the devil!
13 Jul 2005, 12:59 am
....If your "boyfriend" wouldn't take you out in public because he "has a reputation to uphold."
....If you think it's your fault and try everything to change their minds about you.
....If lining up for lunch in school, everyone would play, "skip and skip back" which is when each person skips the one in front of you, then gets behind them, thereby "skipping back." Everyone ends up in front of you, making you the last person in line. And god forbid if you ask to do it too.
Those people who annoy you suck. I officially dislike them.
13 Jul 2005, 3:03 am
13 Jul 2005, 3:09 am
duncvis
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13 Jul 2005, 4:00 am
I'd buy it... especially if it had maps to go with it. 
13 Jul 2005, 4:03 am
...If you owned an up to date encyclopedia set by the age of 7.
13 Jul 2005, 11:05 am
If you plot vengeance upon your school by trying to make the people in charge of music at sports day play really heavy death metal.
13 Jul 2005, 12:02 pm
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13 Jul 2005, 2:43 pm
...no, see, you're just doing it "to make everyone else feel stupid". (Hey, if the shoe fits, kids...) Bwahahaha!! !
13 Jul 2005, 3:03 pm
