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firemonkey
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31 May 2022, 5:05 am

I've known my (s) daughter since just before she was 10. She'll 50 this year. It's not always been plain sailing. Given how things were at one time I'm immensely proud of how she is, and what she's achieved. They say 'blood is thicker than water'. I'm not sure that always true. I can express love for my (s) daughter and granddaughters etc in a way I've never been able to do with my birth family. My parents are/were very intelligent, but had that typical middle class emotional reservedness.

I do have a reasonably warm relationship with my brother. We exchange regular emails. My father emails me occasionally, ditto re phoning me. I don't find it easy to initiate a phone conversation. Is that weird? My sister hardly ever phones me. She very occasionally interacts with me on FB(ditto my father). I have nieces who'll be 27 and 25 this year . I've not had much contact with them. One was a FB friend for a while but then unfriended me. I don't feel close to them. Is it wrong to say that?


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31 May 2022, 5:23 am

firemonkey wrote:
I wish I wasn't disabled, but no amount of positive thinking or radically alternative ways of looking at things is going to make that come true. ASD is not my superpower. Schizophrenia/schizoaffective is not a 'spiritual awakening' that will lead to my existing on a higher plane. Without the support I get I'd struggle to maintain even the moderately healthy but rather basic level of independent living I have now.


I am in the same boat. Depressed because all I can do is either (1) be a soda jerk, or (2) represent the Fourteenth District of Georgia in the United States Congress! :cry:


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31 May 2022, 5:51 am

For some reason those YouTubevideos give an error message when trying to watch them. Saw a Tweet about MJT with an image of a hamster on a wheel in a woman's brain.


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31 May 2022, 5:53 am

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31 May 2022, 6:24 am

Thank you.


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01 Jun 2022, 2:07 am

Yeah.

Blessed are those that struggle or something. The handful of dirt blown away when opening one's hand to life, inheriting nothing. Wishing, hoping, and dreaming feeling like everything. When you pull that drawstring, it's all revealed to be an empty wellspring and reality is a yearning, as that handful of dirt lacked a lifestring.