Recent content by Jalestra

You know, this doesn't seem very welcoming. In fact, when I first joined it was very welcoming around here and now I've come back it seems really snarky, lots of seemingly underlying tension, negative energy. I came here to find people who I could get some understanding from and find out how...

That's because at first I was making an effort to help and then I got so satisfied over finding someone who understood me...I'm really bad at hijacking threads when I find some pretty big common ground like that. I wonder if there's a forum for Dr. Spock types.... I'll behave myself! lol

Hehe, I drive my husband absolutely insane. H: What color is that house? Me: It's white.....on this side I think I actually saw that vein on his forehead come up that time. He adores me, too. I don't understand how. I know how frustrating I am. :crazy:

I told my family if they can't care enough to learn to communicate with me than obviously we have nothing to say to one another. My mother decided to learn, my youngest brother is trying, my Grannie got grandmothered in.

I don't really run into too many folks like myself (This is the first time in 10 years honestly), so I know sometimes when they start disagreeing *I* read more into it than was there just because that's what I'm used to. It's like I can't just take the disagreement, I'm gearing up to defend...

IME, if you wait to be asked, you'll never find out. People just don't do that. I've also had many cases of this one: Me: "Can I ask you a few questions to better understand where you're coming from?" Person: "Oh YES!" (insert question) "Well don't you think that's rude????" DOH! When...

I think there's actually a mute button so you don't see anything they say or they see anything you say so you can converse with others without that input. I also feel like you do, that I don't belong to any special group, and I think that makes it even easier to feel like I'm not understood at...

I've done it once. I had to bus up to Dallas for my mom and I went voice off and pretended full deafness all the way there. I couldn't understand the loudspeaker at all, and I didn't want to chance not hearing my bus and missing it. They set me in the VIP section so they could find me and helped...

I actually have different ways to deal with it. (Wall of Text incoming) Also, almost all my interactions are non-hierarchical. Even those that shouldn't be, because honestly I don't do well with people who want to boss me around. Souvenirs of my childhood. 1. I don't talk to people very often...

I'm an INTP too, I didn't consider that. I just know my type and what other people have similar personalities. I should read more on it. I've always wondered if it was an aspie trait as well. It's one reason why I think I fall on the spectrum, but I figure if I do then I fall on the low end...

Teamint, correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to have the same problem I do, just on a much more extreme level. You are trying to intellectually box something that cannot be boxed very easily on an intellectual level because it's more emotionally based. You seem to have more trouble than I do...

That happened to me at 22. I never had an ear infection in my life before then. At 22 I got the most painful ear infection, my ear was actually swollen. I went for 2 years of ear infections, almost constant and I was on vicoden/hydrocodone the entire time. I've had 2 tubes in my right ear and 1...

Hi all! I'm Jalestra, Jal, J. I actually joined a couple of years ago and then right after I joined everything went insane and I disappeared. We finally moved to Houston, where I've been trying to get out of the house and stop hermitizing myself. Still a hermit, but only part time now. I...

I'm like Gypsy, it's just something I've gotten better and better at as my hearing loss has progressed....I've developed a new dislike of "mumblers", those that hardly move their lips when they speak..LOL

Oh, I love the stuff they come up with. When my 13 year old was 5 we're walking through a store and she pops out with "I wanna be a psycho when I grow up". Naturally I look at her kind of shocked and she says "I wanna be a psycho!" So I finally ask her what exactly she thinks a psycho does and...