Disambiguation, and check-in. (All)
Okay, guys, after all the recent drama, let's pull ourselves together, shall we - ?
Who all do we have available as fronters - ?
Forest - ancient warrior/healer (???)
Alex - badass biker
Stef - legal owner of our shared body, lady-of-the-house
Elijah - kid who went to work way too early in life, now has to adjust to a disability
Freddie - good Christian kid who sacrificed himself for his loved ones until it killed him
Brandon - youngest at 14/15, rescued out of an experimental medical facility, burn survivor.
Okay. Well, that was telling, just writing that much!
This is the first time we've ever seen Elijah as recovering from his work history, rather than being our designated wage-earner. (How long have we been disabled now, about twenty years ?)
He feels more like a person instead of a role, since we've stopped calling him by his nickname Lige, and started using his whole first name. That was the name he was called, before he ever went to work and started pretending to be older than he really was.
Today we need to go to the grocery store, and it's feeling like a big deal. Because we're uncomfortable with this chick who works there, after she came and stayed at our house long enough for us to start really getting to know her. (!!) (Creep in a normie's clothing....)
Anyway, we're all still a little freaked out by that whole experience. How normal/harmless/healthy we thought she really was, knowing her (at a bit of a distance) for years, our son dating her daughter for a time and then the two of them remaining friends. We really thought we had a good sense of what this woman was all about. And.....we were wrong.
(In all fairness, our son who was dating her daughter, had no inkling how weird this woman was, until the daughter told him. So it's not just that our perception is off. It's more that she is very good at hiding who she is. She makes us think of Ted Bundy now, and also John Wayne Gacy. Not that we think she's killed anybody....it's just that if she had, you'd never know. And it does creep us out, very much.)
So now we're thinking, how many people like her are out there - ? Possibly many. How do you tell ? Possibly you can't.
And then the bigger question - so who do we trust ?
And the answer seems to be, first of all, our two sons. The older, and then the younger. And then our daughter. And then our daughter-in-law. And then, in spite of all our problems, Rusty.
And then, after that, it gets scary. There's no one we want to have to put our trust in.
But now Forest is saying it's quite possible to be near people, without trusting them.
So now we're thinking, we hope Forest will take over as our 'designated people-person' for now. In the past, Elijah's done it, as part of earning a living. But, now Elijah has a lot of stress to recover from. So...we're hoping Forest will do this.
It probably won't win us any friends, as he's not the type to give people that warm-fuzzy feeling. But...right now we don't think we want any more IRL friends! They're a pain in the ass!
It might be hard to get Elijah out of that mode of mingling with people, and 'doing as the Romans do'. But, maybe Forest will help.
(A little later)
Old tapes playing now. Don't be so judgmental! Be nice to everyone, you never know when that person was Jesus in disguise!
(Freddie) we did take this so seriously as a child. I don't think it was written for children.
(Forest)We have definitely met some people, who were not Jesus.
It's enough to not be deliberately unkind, unless threatened.
Unfortunately there are people one does not dare show even graciousness to.
(Elijah) Dude, we've got to find a way to balance this out. We can't just go through life throwing off that attitude.
(Forest) Fine. But do be cautious. Remember these lessons we've learned since we've moved into this house!
Who all do we have available as fronters - ?
Forest - ancient warrior/healer (???)
Alex - badass biker
Stef - legal owner of our shared body, lady-of-the-house
Elijah - kid who went to work way too early in life, now has to adjust to a disability
Freddie - good Christian kid who sacrificed himself for his loved ones until it killed him
Brandon - youngest at 14/15, rescued out of an experimental medical facility, burn survivor.
Okay. Well, that was telling, just writing that much!
This is the first time we've ever seen Elijah as recovering from his work history, rather than being our designated wage-earner. (How long have we been disabled now, about twenty years ?)
He feels more like a person instead of a role, since we've stopped calling him by his nickname Lige, and started using his whole first name. That was the name he was called, before he ever went to work and started pretending to be older than he really was.
Today we need to go to the grocery store, and it's feeling like a big deal. Because we're uncomfortable with this chick who works there, after she came and stayed at our house long enough for us to start really getting to know her. (!!) (Creep in a normie's clothing....)
Anyway, we're all still a little freaked out by that whole experience. How normal/harmless/healthy we thought she really was, knowing her (at a bit of a distance) for years, our son dating her daughter for a time and then the two of them remaining friends. We really thought we had a good sense of what this woman was all about. And.....we were wrong.
(In all fairness, our son who was dating her daughter, had no inkling how weird this woman was, until the daughter told him. So it's not just that our perception is off. It's more that she is very good at hiding who she is. She makes us think of Ted Bundy now, and also John Wayne Gacy. Not that we think she's killed anybody....it's just that if she had, you'd never know. And it does creep us out, very much.)
So now we're thinking, how many people like her are out there - ? Possibly many. How do you tell ? Possibly you can't.
And then the bigger question - so who do we trust ?
And the answer seems to be, first of all, our two sons. The older, and then the younger. And then our daughter. And then our daughter-in-law. And then, in spite of all our problems, Rusty.
And then, after that, it gets scary. There's no one we want to have to put our trust in.
But now Forest is saying it's quite possible to be near people, without trusting them.
So now we're thinking, we hope Forest will take over as our 'designated people-person' for now. In the past, Elijah's done it, as part of earning a living. But, now Elijah has a lot of stress to recover from. So...we're hoping Forest will do this.
It probably won't win us any friends, as he's not the type to give people that warm-fuzzy feeling. But...right now we don't think we want any more IRL friends! They're a pain in the ass!
It might be hard to get Elijah out of that mode of mingling with people, and 'doing as the Romans do'. But, maybe Forest will help.
(A little later)
Old tapes playing now. Don't be so judgmental! Be nice to everyone, you never know when that person was Jesus in disguise!
(Freddie) we did take this so seriously as a child. I don't think it was written for children.
(Forest)We have definitely met some people, who were not Jesus.
It's enough to not be deliberately unkind, unless threatened.
Unfortunately there are people one does not dare show even graciousness to.
(Elijah) Dude, we've got to find a way to balance this out. We can't just go through life throwing off that attitude.
(Forest) Fine. But do be cautious. Remember these lessons we've learned since we've moved into this house!