Date: 2010-04-30 14:29 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: rant

 This is something that bothers me so I decided I'd rant about it here.

I have family on my mother's side that I can trace back to the second landing at Jamestown. My father's side doesn't go back quite that far, but they do go back to the pre-Revolution. I have family on both sides such that I have relatives that fought in every major American conflict, including both sides of the Civil War. My nearest migrated relatives are seven generations back on both sides. I even have a marginal amount (like 1/152) of native blood in me. So, pray tell, does that not make me a 'native' American? 

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User: bar_ohki Date: 2010-05-01 00:30 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

One of the reasons I write so much fanfiction is to help myself try and understand normal people better by role playing their actions in a story setting. It's often hard to tell if a written word was done by an autistic person unless something kind of fundamental wasn't adding up.

But in person I can pass as a normal, non-autistic person, just don't ask me to lie (still can't get that right after 21 years of kind of trying). But in typing I don't really have to tell you my tone, my body language, or expect you to do anything but take my words at face value. You have to take typed words at face value because there's no non-verbals for context for hidden meanings.

That's why I type normally.

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