All these thoughts ( Read more... )

20--What steps do you take to make your LJ (Facebook, etc, but I am mostly interested in LJ) into a place you want it to be, which of them work, and do any of them happen to trap you in the image of yourself you have already created here and impede you expressing everything of yourself here?

( There are two questions here, neither of which have i paid any attention to. The second, at least, is certainly worthy of my attention. Read more... )

14-- Talk about dysphoria (social, bodily, etc) in relation to your own gender id. Do you experience it? If so, how, and what means do you take to fight it? What kind of affects does it have on your mental life? What would you say to others who have dysphoria too ( Read more... )

3--spiritual transitions: how did you transition from one spiritual phase to another? what thoughts and questions and feelings sparked those transitions? were the individual transitions easy, difficult, painful? have you suffered loss of any kind because of a transition? have you faced someone else's anger and/or disappointment and/or scorn for ( Read more... )

I think that over the past 40 years i have slowly changed for the better.  I have pushed against the "wall" and expanded my comfort zone.  I have recovered some courage.  i have become more "real"  I can see six things that have made that change easier.

( 1) Diannee... )

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Asperger's, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although ( Read more... )

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There is almost no change in our status over the last couple days, but i know you have a concern for our well being so i will try to post at least every couple of days just to let you all know that things are well.  Dianne still requires higher than prescribed oxygen flow to keep her saturation level up  -- six litres instead of 4 during sleep and ( Read more... )