My brother is being driven into the woods to become a man. He has to wear a blindfold until he gets there. An older man from my family's church is driving a van filled with blindfolded teenage boys, towards the forest, at night. I hope he doesn't get pulled over ( Read more... )

I am not a good girl, or a good woman, or even an especially pretty monster. I'm socially awkward in what is often a very real, very serious, very not-cute-or-endearing way. (Starting barfights by accident- awkward. Inappropriate flirting and oversharing with complete strangers- awkward. Not being able to look anyone in the eyes and tell them that ( Read more... )

Oh, and-- in response to the post I made about autism and empathy a couple weeks ago, my friend luai_lashire sent me this in an e-mail:

...Along the lines of "autistics have empathy, but show it differently", I saw a report once about a study where autistic kids and NT kids were asked a series of questions about how they would act in certain situations; one of ( Read more... )

Ms. Fitz Clementine:  Wait. Waitwaitwait. His actual name is "Will B. Cumming?" Seriously?

Ms. Fern Greenleaf:  Yeah. I think it's cute. ::giggle::

Ms. Clementine: Agh... that's so dirty! ::laugh::

Ms. Greenleaf: Wait, why is it dirty?

Ms. Clementine: You really don't know?

Ms. Greenleaf: No.

Ms. Clementine:  (speaking very slowly) Will...Be...Cumming. ( Read more... )