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My first emotional crush was one of the teachers daughters when I was ten, we used to walk round the graveyard next to the school reading the engravings on the tombs.

Don’t think I’ve ever had a sexual crush: I have a high sex drive, but it’s always seemed like a side issue.

I’m off to chop onions now

Did you ever humiliate a teacher by asking them a question they couldn’t answer in front of a schools inspector?

My first crush post-puberty was a boy named Sean who was in foster care. He was in my school but a year younger. He was about 11 and I was about 12. I was obsessed with him because I felt sorry for him. He ended up moving schools. I don't remember if he found a permanent family but I think so. I was hysterical when he left the school. I made a fool of myself even though I barely knew him. The song Goodbye to Romance (OZZY) reminds me of him.

I humiliated Margaret Atwood by challenging her about sexism in a literature lecture. She was the guest speaker.

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I was never that much of a "genius." I was pretty deferential to my teachers, even though I kept on calling out the answers to questions.

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It happened quite often to ask them things they didn't know or even correct them. That didn't go well I stopped doing it, but had absolutely no idea why I wasn't supposed to. Later I had some great profs at University who didn't mind)

Did you have an innate sense of hierarchy as a kid? Did you understand why adults can do all the things that got you in trouble?

I never liked hypocrisy or double standards. I noticed it primarily with my brother, who is three years older. My parents would say "You can do _______ when you are his age". I would achieve that age and they would still say "but he is older, he can do ________ and you can't". I felt like I was always playing catch-up. For example he could drive the boat at age 10 but I was seven and I couldn't. By the time I was 10 they didn't remember or let me, and by then my brother was 13 riding a dirt bike. I couldn't do that either because I wasn't 13. It snowballed. I never caught up.

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I was outwardly passive in that sense....but I would usually find a way to do things I was forbidden to do owing to age—if I really wanted to do it.

I wasn’t smart enough as a kid to see the hypocrisy of adults.

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No, and I constantly got in trouble for it. Adults thought I was defying them and not know my place, but I really didn't understand the difference.

I still remember clear as day when I completely gave up trying to understand. My mother had a habit of coming home from work pissed off and take it out on whoever was around. So one day she starts hectoring me out of the blue about lying (I wasn't lying) with yelling and everything than tells me she will go lie down for an hour and "If X calls tell her I'm not at home". It still makes me laugh when I remember as it's the quintessence of how I saw adults as a kid I still wonder how normal kids deal with this kind of stuff.

Do you have siblings? How do you get along?

I have an older brother; we don't get along that great. He's a strident conservative politically.

I have an older brother. We adopted a child together if that's not weird enough. We are quite close even though we mostly talk by text, and his fiancee controls him like a drill sergeant. He is very much like me in his ASD characteristics, but not formally diagnosed.

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A dead older brother I don't remember and a half-sister I met twice. But we get along and write to each other quite regularly.

Do you get along with your partner's or children's friends?

My partner is new to my life so I haven't met his friends yet. I'm meeting his brother this week. I get along really well with my children's friends. I miss having the steady stream of musicians through here.

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I don't get along too badly with the relations of my wife. I got along pretty well with her mother and father when they were alive.

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One of my wife's friends became one of my closest friends and my kids' friends are usually fun and keep me up to date with music and other stuff.

Do you enjoy large family gatherings?

No, I don't attend them. If I had to go, I'd likely hide with my dog somewhere.

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I love them.

Do you like drawing?

I used to, back when I was taking a medication that helped control my tremor. I had to stop that medication because it was making my blood pressure drop too low, and now when I try to draw, I get too frustrated by the tremor to enjoy it anymore.

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