Wanna Write (X-Posted from _talshiar_'s journal)

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For a while now, I've been wanting to put some direction / sense of signposts into my life, but holding off for fear of setting myself up for failure. I keep treading water waiting on various insurance and legal decisions, waiting on paperwork and I'm really sick of it.

I've also been really really wanting to do some sort of art therapy, but unable to find anyone / any place to facilitate it, and have been to scared to jump right in with no 'lifeguard' so to speak.

Today at therapy I'm going to talk to my T about him playing lifeguard for me if I go thru one of the following books -

poemcrazy freeing your life with words, Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge Three Rivers Press www.randomhouse.com ISBN 0-609-80098-1

or

The Way of The Journal - A Journal Therapy Workbook for Healing (2nd Ed.) Kathleen Adams, MA, LPC, Sidran Press, www.sidran.org ISBN 0-9629164-2-0

He (T) is certainly qualified and more for this, but as it's words, not pictures, it struck me as something that would share on the internet decently and then there would be a nice peer component.

Would anyone else be interested in making a writers group on line? And if so, for which book?

I"m still disappointed that I've not been able to find an art group, but I'm kinda tired of being disappointed about that if you follow me. I want to do something. Almost anything really. But this sounds, you know, possible. And not self destructive.

A request for information.

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multiples and autism

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We are fairly new to this community, though we do talk to one of the members online in private e-mails . . .

Currently, we are working on a book about Asperger's Syndrome in which we want to address the concept of multiplicity and autism - in short, we have found that quite a few people with AS report something like multiplicity so we are thinking that this may be part of AS . . .

We are very interested in any of your thoughts about this, especially if you are autistic too - we are collecting quotes to include in this chapter of the book . . .

As for us personally, there are three and a half of us - there is a central processor (that is the half) that presents to the real world most of the time, then there is me, Daniel, who is dominant most of the time - I am the most autistic of the bunch and have really almost no emotions - except for fear, and I have a terrible temper . . .
Then there is Gabriel who keeps all of our emotions - he is very young - maybe 15 or so . . . I really dislike him . . .
Then there is Nathan - Nathan is probably the closest to what you think of as an autistic - he is very creative and loves to do things like sew and also loves animals and toys - but he couldn't function on his own - he is unconcerned with the outside world unless it effects him directly - he really lives in a world made up of sensation and gets distracted easily - he is almost never dominant by himeself . . .

I am almost always dominant but usually through the central processor - unless I get angry . . . I don't want to give the impression that we are excessively mean - we are vegans, actually - I just yell a lot when I get mad . . .