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Hey, @WildMermaid <---- Also married a comic book artist. I know you wrote about posing for superhero(ine) drawings and something about conventions, but I did not put 2 and 2 together. My husband has done some comics and some role playing stuff, character design and stuff. We used to spend...

Lol I'm here. I somehow missed the rest of the activity on this thread.

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While there probably is some other stuff going on with your wife this is where my mind went. I hated my husband when I was pregnant. Just suddenly became repulsed by him and really kind of everybody. I have been pregnant 3 times, only carried to term once, but I can look back and see it...

Nope, that was my thought process, too. I immediately assumed child abusers because my brain can make a little bit of sense of that. But sex offender is a much broader category. And no, I don't see how being molested as a child would lead to assaulting adults.

..... You know what, this is exactly the experience my stepdad had as a kid and through high school. He's a pacific islander and in my opinion very obviously so, but he was in school during segregation and all of the kids decided that he was the "enemy" and for quite a few years they chased him...

@Solara It was with all of the children's coloring and paint by number type books in the big shelves along the wall. I've only been to 2 of their stores, but they were both set up that way. The one I saw was probably about 5x5" and pretty thick. I don't pay full price for anything. LOL. My...

Welcome @Dekenipp! I didn't realize that I was doing it, but I have done a lot of "art therapy" in the past. It's helpful for me. Don't give up hope on finding a therapist, though. There are resources out there. Sometimes even seeing an intern for $15 is better than nothing. There are also fully...

@Solara I actually saw one at Ollie's the other day. It was a mandela book, so it was still all geometric stuff. The reverse side of each page was blank. I considered buying it as a journal. It's a discount store in this area that gets irregulars and stuff. Kind of like a Ross or Big Lots. You...

I have been debating whether or not to share this story here because it truly is offensive. My ethnic background is primarily scottish and italian. I have dark hair and olive skin that's yellow in the winter and what my husband calls "caramel" the rest of the year. I also have what they call a...

Yes, ma'am. I always feel like a freak in "girlie" stores, but I'm completely invisible at makeup counters. The MAC counter, I could probably throw everything they've got in my purse and walk away and nobody would have noticed I was there. It's a weird environment there, though, in particular...

I did it, but I don't know how useful my responses will be. Many of the options were not really applicable to me. Another thing to point out- the first question asks if you are, you know somebody, think you know somebody... I have 2 family members who have suffered from ptsd, one combat related...

Umm, well, assuming I actually have it. I'm not entirely sure... if I had to guess I'd say childhood abuse (physical and emotional), what typically manifested as abject hatred from my father, alcoholism, and domestic violence. But I'm not sure if that's the real answer. I was also hit by a car...

I've always been a big writer, too, @desiderata310 . But I've never been able to write something down and then just release it. Now something I have noticed is that writing things down takes away some of their power. I'm totally guessing, but maybe having a concrete story there solidifies things...

Pssh, if only it were as simple as putting them on paper and ripping them up. Hell, I've tried this with non-traumatic thoughts. The kind that don't have the ability to leave me in a catatonic state or a pool of tears. Did nothing for me. Who knows, though, maybe there will be more to this...

I do think you're getting your point across @Taylor30313 . I know that feeling. I am paranoid about passersby, in general, but being near a dark window that I can't see out puts me in panic mode. It's not major, but it's there. It's been there at least since I was a teenager. (Edit to say...

Because I suck at the therapy thing I haven't discussed a starting point with anybody, but it's quite possible that it was an accident when I was between 3 and 4 years old so I couldn't say whether anything has changed. I am told I was into funk prior to that time. LOL. I have a wide range of...

This is an interesting thread. I just skimmed the responses (I'm in the middle of cleaning my house and the computer drew me in...), but there were a lot of things that really resonated with me. I can't help but connect a lot of my "stuff" with my past. Introspection, empathy; huge one...

@UniversalBeing I feel like her stuff has kind of a triumphant feel even when it's about not so pleasant things. Maybe that's me reading something feminist into them, but it seems more universal than that. I love to sing- now, I suck at it- but that doesn't change the fact. Just the act of...

And this is a really good point. We are all a combination of things, good things, sometimes terrible things, in between things. I feel that it's important to recognize all of your parts and to be able to see and accept you as a complete person. That doesn't mean you can't work on you or stop...

Well, some possibilities: A tendency to beat ourselves up A tendency to overshare A place to unload Confession and repentance A sort of warning/PSA Trust-building (I'd say my reason is a combination of the preceding 3)' Testing others' reaction "Diary"-type function I suppose a sense of...

I think I see exactly what you're saying. This probably applies to most of us, but I was this way, too. I gave up talking about things pretty early and never felt like I had anybody to go to so I hid so much and assumed so much about people's potential (bad) reactions. So now I have nobody to...

Y'know I didn't even notice the "at night" part yesterday. I just assumed she meant all of the time. LOL. I hate having them open any time. My neighbor opens her blinds and her door at all hours. You can see everything in there. I'll pull into the parking lot and see her sitting on the couch...

This one is more method than recipe, and I suck at writing out my own recipes so this will probably be awkward... BBQ pulled pork (in the crock pot/slow cooker) (Oh, and this is Georgia, ya'll) Boneless Pork Roast around 3 lbs: Either Center Cut with the fat still on top or Shoulder, trimmed...

Whoah, no, I don't think that's silly at all. My windows are all ground floor facing the parking lot and I always keep the blinds closed. If I want more light I open them slightly facing up and make sure the curtains are completely closed. Thinking about it, though, I'm probably not a very...