we have a lot of varied life experiences here, let's have a place where writers can ask "what is it like --?"
This loses quotes, so it'll be a bit less coherent, but I think this is most of the relevant posts from Tumblr.txt: (PART 1 because I hit the post character limit)
I can offer info about living a completely non-verbal life (as an adult - as a child I was about 95% sheltered from other people - which I can also talk about :) ). Also - intersex (born with no functioning baby-making parts) - Turner Syndrome. Look like a prepubescent child and always will until I croak from the excessively high BP. Visibly deformed - I cannot pass as a "normal" person unless I overdress and I tend to do the opposite. Poly - in the same family all my adult life (16+ years, which seems to be unusual for poly families)
I KNOW THINGS ABOUT LIVING IN HAWAII :D and a few other bits and pieces of info (like adoption, genderweird, Shitty Relatives, etc.) but yeah!!
i'm available to talk about living in the frozen north, growing up in the 70's and 80's, being autistic, having chronic pain, and all things yarn-related. you'll never mix up crochet and knitting again!
also i'm offering my brother @Kodachi to talk about swordfighting and metalworking. sorry, bro, you been voluntold.
I was raised atheist, which I guess is unusual? And I grew up in a pretty healthy family, not what you'd call dysfunctional... Kid in the 80s, teenager in the 90s @keltka I'd be very interested in your experience of adoption, though I can't think of specific questions rn And anybody afab, I'm always interested in learning more about your experiences with your biology and how the world has treated you be of it, which I know is super broad -_-
i can supply info on being homeschooled my whole life, i guess? or just general being a 'gifted kid' things.
@Xitaqa @raybot it's extra funny because I was gonna PM raybot and ask if it was okay to ping them re: adoption :D and yeah sure any time! my experience is unusual in a few ways, but I'm well aware that there's never a normal for adoption experiences
That's what makes this thread useful - many people of varying experiences so anyone coming here can get input that will help overcome any particular stereotype they might have been thinking.
I can provide information on what it's like living with epilepsy. Or with pure-o OCD. And non-binary woes! Specifically bigendered ones.
I'm also here for the gifted kid thing, BTW. 24 now, but a lot of experience both being and knowing Smart Kids (TM) in a variety of school situations and with a variety of secondary brainweirds. One friend group of mine has a Discord channel occasionally named "Disillusioned Queer Geniuses." :::PPP
hmm. I can contribute stuff about: afab (and really hilariously slow realization of "actually no not a girl") CAT Scan (as a kid)/ MRI (as a kid) college in North Dakota traveling across states in a 15p van with nine other people with All of our things ....and probably some other stuff, but I can't think of right now
Also, caring for a grandparent with Alzheimers. And I guess I did make @Quicksilver worry about me once because of my confident ability to relay the difference between how it feels to faint from low blood sugar and how it feels to faint from blood loss.
I can contribute about: Estonia (and I can try about supersets of it, like being Eastern European, but I'm less knowledgeable about the more general categories) serious short-sightedness adventures in orthodontia (I was the patient) being a programmer, kinda LARP (more specifically Estonian LARP, which is probably different from American or Nordic, but basic idea should be the same) The significant other says I know about living with a person with asthma (or I can ask him questions about asthma and relay answers).