{"id":285,"date":"2012-11-05T16:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/~sean\/wordpress\/?p=285"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:59:26","slug":"day-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/day-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double duty again today, because I would like to say a little about each.<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Both? Do you wish you could have more of the other characteristic? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m terribly introverted.  Have been since about puberty.  Some of it is related to how physically unattractive I view myself as (fat kid syndrome).  Some of it has to do with a low overall opinion of many others.  <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, very few people understand what makes me tick.  Fewer, still, agree with me.  Whether that makes me disagreeable is up to you.  If you don&#8217;t wish to keep my company, whatever.  The reverse is also true.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel obligations to some people that I probably should.  Especially those who don&#8217;t even attempt to understand what it is I&#8217;m going through.  No, I can&#8217;t stand in one place for five minutes without wobbling.  Yes, I used to be able to march in a straight line; I can&#8217;t anymore.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing that&#8217;s going to fix me.  There&#8217;s not even really anything that&#8217;ll make life halfway normal.  How the hell can you explain to someone who&#8217;s never experienced it what it&#8217;s like to have to remember to breathe?  How do you explain to someone that there&#8217;s no glasses that&#8217;ll make your eyes work better?  <\/p>\n<p>This is just not stuff most people can comprehend.  But it&#8217;s reality for me.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. If your younger self could time travel and meet the you of today, what would they think of you? What would you tell your younger self?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>See the answer to question number one, but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a jerk.  A complete <strike>asshole<\/strike>kneebiter.  Use that to get them to figure out what the hell is wrong with you when you&#8217;re 22 instead of 30.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re being self-destructive right now;  don&#8217;t worry so much about it.  Have a little fun, asshole.  You&#8217;re too old for your age.  Enjoy being what you are;  you&#8217;ve only got one chance at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double duty again today, because I would like to say a little about each. 1. Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Both? Do you wish you could have more of the other characteristic? I&#8217;m terribly introverted. Have been since about puberty. Some of it is related to how physically unattractive I view myself as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}