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jwhouk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:54 pm I think she might be more concerned about breathing first.

Nah. I don't think she has to breathe, really.

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Amazing how our friends can completely miss the point, isn't it?

That's why she opened up the eyes. Sort of a snorkel.

Huh, so Hiroshi DOES still exist apparently.

I have been in hugs like that. Things did not turn out well...

lest she knows her friends support her even if they dont understand

I’ve had a moment a bit like this, actually... uhm...

Ok so my high school had a program called Snowball, where kids could choose to stay overnight at school for a long weekend or something like that.

Memory is a bit fuzzy.

But it was for stuff like leadership and whatnot. I figured that dovetailed nicely with Boy Scouts, so I went against my usual instinct of “social stealth” and went. I figured I could still probably be functionally invisible there, I’d gotten pretty good at it by then.

Well at one point there was an activity where everyone wrote down a compliment about the other kids in their group.

Well, because I’d had to resort to social stealth for psychological survival for the last decade at that point, getting compliments from peers was... a new experience. Especially so many compliments... but that wasn’t what really got me.

What REALLY got me was one girl went and wrote down a whole bunch, and they were genuine. Not the shallow platitudes the other kids were writing down to skate by because they had almost no idea who I was.

Yeah... I cried a bit.

I still have that little note she wrote me.

So... uh... yeah. I actually feel for cas a whole lot, here. She’s probably feeling like her world is upside down and inside out. Recalibrations are required.