((( Melody )))
I'd heard from others about the sex happenings in SL; maybe it's because I deal with so much disgusting work-related stuff that I've not ventured to encounter as you have firsthand. I can see how unsuspecting people, such as yourself, could stumble into it. Too me that's stuff, it's just ... well ... I don't know what to make of it, to be honest.
I've got better ways I wanna spend my money
.
Maybe when SL has another open house, your son might consider visiting B. It's better seen - and experienced - that any description I could provide; I'm sure I've not done it justice, since words really can't adequately convey all that it encompasses.
If you want to see a different side of SL when you're logged in, feel free to drop me a message. My SL user name, in full, is: Rainmaiden Fairplay.
As I mentioned, long before I knew I had AS, my friends were calling me "Rain." One of my professors had said that I reminded him of the Dustin Hoffman character from ... what movie
. I hadn't seen the movie and he suggested I do so. (When working in publishing, without looking, I knew the names, addresses and telephone numbers of subscribers off the top-of-my-head. I thought it was nice to have that address book lodged in my brain
.) And, still, with work, my colleagues comment about how I retain info. Guess we know now how so that happens.
My favorite aspect of SL, Melody, is Mountain Surfing... standing on the edge of a mountain top - at B. - and surfing down in my bunny slippers. Maybe I can take you mountain surfing some time.
Lara, I think that Melody and others who've joined and visited SL are giving accurate descriptions about what they've experienced. Where the misunderstandings come into the picture is what others are mistakenly reading into it.
I just wanted to explain a bit about B., and the other Isles I'm familiar with so that people aren't mistakenly thinking that B. members or JL are directly involved with the "sex dens" and stuff of that nature
.
When I first joined, I was still feeling shy about people I don't know very well knowing about the AS, and JL did offer the safety-net of not exposing ourselves to anything that could inadvertently hurt anyone (there is still a stigma attached to the AS dx, which is why so many adults are undiagnosed - by choice). He encouraged the use of nyms - if we chose so that our RL existence couldn't be harmed in any way.
Since I've self-outted (here and other places), the following links to more about my time in SL:
http://braintalk.blogs.com/brigadoon...sts/index.html