Recent content by Wayfarer

I'm writing a story about someone who grows up in a classic, old-fashioned traditional subculture and family (East Coast Irish Catholic, circa 1980's-90's, but in many ways more like 40's or 50's because this is a very traditional enclave). This isn't my background at all, but I've converted...

I don't believe I could handle living in space. All that endless velvety blackness. Is there a word for the opposite of claustrophobia? The inestimable riches of earth--sky, clouds, wind, trees, color, life, flora and fauna and seasons and the waxing and waning of day and night--all seem humanly...

I think aspects of psychology have real value, but there also seems to be a lot of weird and nonsensical junk mixed in. Anyone who's ever studied Freud (or Jung) ought to have at least some sense of this. MBTI, too, has its critics, and though I strongly identify with the NF temperament, I don't...

I would. I actually always wanted to, growing up. I wish I were in a position to be able to do it. Unfortunately, barring a miracle, I can't see my life circumstances ever allowing me to do that now. Not going forward from where I am now.

Well, I visited Columbia, MO ("College Town, USA") over the summer, and that definitely didn't suit me. Actually, I felt claustrophobic. Maybe it would be different in a generally more intellectual climate, like the Northeast or the West Coast, though... I'm definitely open to a smaller town...

Thanks. It's hard picking the right area, though, plus the right school. I'm not sure where people more like me would tend to congregate exactly, you know? Big cities seem to have "every kind," but they also tend to overwhelm me.

Thanks. It's such a tremendous relief to take down my own walls, but ripping up the foundations is harder. And even stumbling out into freedom...is such a tricky thing. Trying to navigate the strange world of human interaction, with creatures who seem SO different. And then, of course, it's not...

Half of it was dead on, and half of it was way off. But then, I'm messed up. Lol.

I'm not interested in a romantic relationship, but if I were, sure. Actually, I think I'd do better with someone more like me.

I hate it! So disrespectful, and degrading. I can't stand aggression, especially in those kinds of relationships (or, relations, I guess). It immediately puts me off anyone who does it. Permanently.

Thanks, hush! : )

Wow, yeah. This is a big issue for me. I do maybe all of those things listed. I don't know about socializing, though. Small talk, I don't know how to do. It's just exhausting.