Tell us an unusual thing that people don't know about you

"BTW, this is the 4th draft of this comment!"
OMG, I rewrite one post for sometimes an hour. And not even for typos. I always post too long I chide myself (and its true as I don't do short snarky responses.)

Except, the more I edit, the longer it gets. Thus: "I would have written less but I ran out of time." Lol

Same. I believe many of us suffer from brain inflammation so we are acutely sensitive. Its also a sign of ADHD and can be temporal lobe epilepsy in my case, but I believe all of them are brain inflammation. There is a group studying brain inflammation I was surprised to find.

My grandmother got measles at 2years old and ended up deaf from it. People don't understand many diseases don't hurt people anymore because of vaccines. (Not wanting to start a convo about that.)

But you don't stop taking your high blood pressure med because your BP is normal. You dont stop your epilepsy meds because you are seizure free. You don't stop your insulin because your blood sugar is good.

Measles. Scarlet fever. TB. Mumps. People like you (and even me at 70) help keep history alive, this important stuff people want to forget.

Measles outbreak in TX. Some children can end up deaf for life. Its a big deal. Thank you.

Have you thought of writing or even recording a memoir? Even if each chapter is about one thing unrelated to the previous chapters. Like where were you when JFK, MLK, RFK was shot? These incidents are rapidly getting lost.

I would love to go into nursing homes an listen to their stories and write them down. Hmm. I thinking about a volunteer job. Maybe its time for that?

You are speaking of HSP? Highly Sensitive person?Cant go to malls - too many feelings going on all around you. Not empathy. Empathic. Know you won't like a food because of how it looks. We know the texture of the food in our mouth will be intolerable. (Dont tell kids they can't say they don't like something because they have never tried it. 😁)

There is a documentary made about HSPs by the author of the book written about it. Its streaming but I forget where. Lots of videos on YT.

Ok. I thought I had already posted here but I can't find it.

I too have rarely held an infant. If you were LGBT in the 80s, people didn't let you hold their kids. My sister wouldn't even go to family events if I was there. It was AIDS time. The gay plaque and I was a lesbian. Dangerous person to be near. That was then. Too many don't remember or maybe never knew what it was like to be gay back then.

So, lets see.

I've never lived with a partner. The closest I came, we both had rent controlled apartments. Who gives theirs up?? Neither!

Many, many who knew me in the 80s and 90s would be shocked to find out I am still alive and didn't suicide (I moved out of state.)

People today would be surprised to know I wore glasses, smoked over a pack a day, have walked with crutches most of my adult life, live in constant pain and have successfully suicided once.

People back then would be surprised to find out I ever quit smoking! Lol (1999. 26 years ago. Seems like yesterday.)

Ok. One interesting odd thing. I had a conversation with Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas about where to buy underwear in Boston on a Sunday.

Wow!

We are a surviving species…I’ve just come out of the jungle and now I’ve met two of my tribe…I’ve felt like the last of my species my whole life.

I get physically sick, so bad sometimes I often want to die just to make it stop.

That I am not alone means more than I can say.

More and more doctors are paying attention. I think they are finally going to imagine my brain…after 14 years of high dose psyche meds and 19 sessions of ECT…I’m going to light up the fMRI like Christmas tree.

I’ve been struggling with this my whole…six was my first psychotic break…they labeled me as just about everything except what I am I human with expanded sense perception.

Thank you 🙏

Thank you 🙏

In addition to surviving measles, I also had scarlet fever when I was 10 years old. So that would have been 80 years ago. There were no medications then. I remember being put into an ambulance and was taken to a special hospital that was for people with communicable diseases. I remained there in seclusion until the disease had run its course. Of course I could have easily died. My present doctor feels that surviving these life threatening diseases has made my immune system stronger and may be a contributing factor to why I am doing so well at such an advanced age.

You are correct. Medicines have come a long way. I did not have rheumatic fever. I do not have heart issues. However, I did survive scarlet fever. Nothing for that either. Now you are given an antibiotic and it is over in about a week. I spent a long time in a hospital for communicable diseases. That was my sole treatment. I was 10 years old.

wow!! its as if I wrote your reply, lol. I do enjoy my daughters or my grandkids but apart from them I don't need other people, perhaps that's the root of potential therapy lol

i knew i hit on the right subject,im gonna fit right in! my problem is my filter doesn't come on at the right time lol, I'm finding it best to just not open my mouth