Naina

I'm a girl so I figure a small would fit me. Could I claim a small 2012?

Hey MI!

You have my Skype details. Please let's talk.

I have a lot of sympathy for this. I lied in high school a lot, because I was afraid too. I was very deft at using the truth to deceive people. Lies of omission and word play were an exercise in creativity. For years, I had the ability to sense what people wanted of me and become that. It left me so unsure of my identity I used to obsess over my name just to have some sense of self. It's hard to move on from that. But you can. Lying becomes part of who you are - you identify yourself as a good liar the same way I identified myself as an analyst. But there are other things you can choose to identify yourself with. You're a writer. That's another part of identity. What you choose to be now is entirely up to you. Carpe diem.

On BZPower, you do not ask for good luck, you ask that people don't burn you too badly.

One time I inadvertently listened to an ad which had really nice background music, because my actual video was more music. It was great, I got to add a new song to my collection.

I should teach you to write Hindi alphabets so you can see just how usefully diacritics work in practice. We don't even have a diacritic for 'a' - it's implied. Makes words much shorter. Oh, and the solution is to have an independent form for the vowel for when it's not attached to a consonant. That's what we do in Hindi. Also lets you have words when the vowel is the starting sound. Edit: Double comment merged. -Wind-

Oh oh oh. You need to listen to 'Tequila Sunrise' by the Eagles. The potential for puns is too high! It's another Tekulo sunrise, Spreading slowly across the skyyy

I support everything Zox said. I also recommend Coldplay (start with Fix You), Poets of the Fall (start with Carnival of Rust) and the Narrative (start with Eyes Closed).

I totally used this joke on at least three people.

Do you think you'll ever live outside of Texas?

I used to use Magneto for my signature on BS01. I kinda like Mistral, a friend used it for his sig and I always admired it.

Hear the Angels Sing, or Long Time Ago in Bethlehem. I'm not entirely sure what it's called but it's the first I ever sang for our music class's Christmas concert.

We had homework due today. Prof titled it "Due Thursday (“Remember, remember”) the 5th of November, at 10:30am" and then quizzed us on V for Vendetta in class.

Yeah, it helps to take a hole-istic approach to problems.

How are people doing? I'm averaging 300 words a day. XD School's busy and I hope to accomplish more during Thanksgiving. To be honest though, writing is just hard and this is the first time I've ever tried consistently writing everyday.

Is it fine to start writing before November and add stuff you've written before? I've got ideas I want to work with.

I'm debating whether to write a novel or a set of short stories. Any suggestions?

I never feel like I have time but I'm determined to make this work somehow. I have to wait before classes. I sometimes don't want to homework. I'll make it work. I also struggle with perfectionism on my first draft, but I just discovered free writing, which I highly recommend. Added you back, Zatth.

I signed up on the site: My name is Naina.KH on there.

I've never done NaNoWriMo before, largely because I have perfectionism issues with writing and find it hard to churn out content. Plus I'm a full-time student at a university that doesn't believe in free time. This year, however, I'm joining a NaNoWriMo club IRL so I might as well participate online too. Double the peer pressure community spirit!

Asperger's, to be precise. Nearly two years ago, I found out that I have Asperger's Syndrome, or high-functioning autism under the DSM V. This changed things. Someone had switched on a lightbulb and my Aspergic clumsiness lessened now that I was no longer groping in the dark. A lot of my habits were linked together, the reasons for my struggles became clear, a path towards gaining social skills unveiled itself, all that good stuff. Learning about Asperger's changed how I viewed myself, how I viewed my past and how I viewed my future. I wasn't a freak; I was just different. None of the taunts from high school bothered me anymore, because not only had my peers misjudged me, I had misjudged myself. In the words of Dr. Tony Atwood (I think), I was no longer a failing neurotypical: I was a successful Aspie. The world never seemed clearer than the day I learned that my brain was wired differently. Other things became clear to me too. When I told a high school friend of my diagnosis, her first reaction was "But you're so normal!" Other friends suggested that maybe I was overreacting, I probably didn't have Asperger's. Family tried to suggest that I was merely sensitive and bright. See, the problem with autism is like most everything else to do with the mind. It's not commonly understood and popular media has no idea what it's talking about. In some ways, it's even worse than depression and anxiety. BuzzFeed doesn't post endless articles about how autism is unfairly stigmatized. Tumblr doesn't have an echo chamber about how not all autistic children are unable to read or vocalize properly. The most common organization Autism Speaks doesn't even live up to its name, with not a single autistic member on its board. "This disease has taken our children away. It’s time to get them back." - Are you kidding me? Autism isn't a disease. Autism is part of who I am. I choose to work on the negatives, but there's no way I would want to be a neurotypical. And then there's the anti-vaxxers. Oh, how they argue against vaccines because of a (non-existent) risk of autism. You have to love how they'd rather their kids die than have autism. Autism isn't about that. Autism isn't all struggles and disabilities. Yes, a number of autistic people are unable to perform many basic tasks. No, not all autistic people are. Saying that all autistic people are slow thinkers and act weird is like saying that all girls like the color pink and play with dolls. Oh wait.

The contrast hurts my eyes a bit and nostalgia hurts too, but it's a nice look.