Bravo Dejibo!

I think a big reason we all get so frustrated over these issues is that our energy is limited and we resent wasting it on the same nonsense over and over and over.

By Jove, I think Hockey is right!!! Dejibo you are a role model - at this point I don't have many left to cull. Only the ones who stay anyway are left. I'm getting to the age when friends start dying for a wide variety of reasons. Have lost one to breast cancer already. We were good together when we had time together, united in our understanding of what being different and alone and scary to others was like. My move years ago lost me some I thought I'd never lose.

I admit it was freeing to tell folks to "get off me!" I am tired of being polite. I am tired of folks acting like I am retarded or something. I have a master's degree in nursing! Im not stupid. well, I must be if I put up with their nonsense.

I have recieved a few emails back with folks just wanting to explain their position. Some wanted to tell me to go play with myself, and a few said they were sorry. A few are MIA or silent, and that is just fine with me.

its exhausting to keep up to trying to be nice. I have begun to bristle when I hear the phone ring, before I even know who it is! It was bringing way too much stress in my life to keep defending myself. I am not gonna do it anymore. Enough!

Good for you, Dej!

AMEN! I've told some people "What is this, 50 first Dates?"