And so it begins
I have been thinking about this weeks QOTW. I see it as limited, there are only so many ways we can basically say "I wanted/needed to feel like I belong and so I did something stupid/some stupid things to get people to like me" only to realise that being yourself is much easier, better and far greater than trying to live up to your own preceived preceptions of other peoples thought processes.

To tell you a small amount about me, I am dyslexic, I have been to about 10 different schools (including unis). This means i am a) innately different and b) throughout my life i have had to make new friends on a regular basis, had to change my environments and adjust. I know no other life and i think i have had a very very good life. Oh and in addition to the above i am fundamently different/weird. I don't know if it is a result of my life or simply "me" but i have an amazing level of empathy. I can literally speak to anyone. A friend of mine, well truth be told someone i went to Uni with, has a server speaking impediment. She coops by doing things like, getting petrol late at night so she can use pump 8, as she knows she can say pump 8. She will normally order fish and chips, as she knows she can say "fish and chips". I know this from 2 or 3 conversations with her, out of, well not that many really. I discovered she finds it hard to speak about her speach problem with pretty much most people. Yet i found myself having these in deepth conversations with her, where you wouldn't know she stammered very very badly. As i said i don't know if this is nature or nuture.

I do know, however, that throughout my life i have done stupid things to fit in. I learnt the hard way, many many times. I think my parents would question if i actually learnt at all. To be myself.

I am now in my very late 20's and i know this. Be yourself. If you can't be yourself and love yourself (this does not including hand to gland combat) then who can?

I know this is really not that funny. Who can laugh that much at this level of honesty? Heck I am pretty sure the bulk of people on here are different and special. I count myself amongst them.

Anyways i have beer to be drinking.

StyX
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 23:34, 4 replies)

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nice honest post there mate. and although you said not funny, the 'hand to gland' made me giggle :-)
(Honeycomb is a dirty groupie!, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 23:47, closed)

Thanks
I was trying to think of a female derived version. Hand to wizard sleve, but it didn't to it for me.

My friend suggested "hand to mound".
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Sat 17 Jan 2009, 14:03, closed)

"Be yourself...
everyone else is already taken". Wilde, I think.
(dadadali has hybrid vigour, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 7:30, closed)

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i like that one.
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 12:00, closed)