Posted by leeran on April 10, 2003, at 23:47:28
In reply to Re: to the sensitive ones » leeran, posted by justyourlaugh on April 10, 2003, at 20:51:53
Hi JYL -
Funny you should mention that . . . on the way home from dinner I casually mentioned the fact that I might have been mentally ill as early as 4 or 5 years old (after all, OCD is a mental illness, right?). This wasn't news to my husband, who is one of the few people who knows all about my weird little first grade rituals!
Anyway, we were discussing whether or not (at that age) my actions were the result of environmental factors or just written into my genome. Inheritance is a real possibility considering the carbon dating on our family "nut" tree (note, I say that to myself quite civilly, albeit with tongue in cheek, because I really am pretty fond of my quirky self and I realize I'm the sum total of all that's happened to me - in this life and all others ;-)Being an only child, and having an only child, has been kind of a guinea pig test test for me (which is why, perhaps, I try to bring some semblance of "order" to the disorder with birth order theories).
Let it be known here and now (uh oh, this is sounding a lot like a proclamation) that I have a passing interest in birth order but, unlike many other things I worry endlessly about, I am not obsessive about it (just yet!).
Ultimately, this board is part of my self-imposed twelve-step program of recovery from conspiracy theory message boards and plastic surgery forums (don't laugh, I teeter dangerously between worrying about magnetic polar shifts and having a lower face lift).
Thank you for your welcome! I was afraid I had permanently ostracized myself by touting the benefits of the Hitachi Magic Wand on the meds board.
Civilly yours (and wishing you pease as well), ;-)
Lee
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