By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 08:31:35 +0000

I don’t think any of us know what goes on in other people’s heads.
You seem to be happy with yourself – perhaps I’m wrong, but that’s how you appear – maybe that’s due to your military training (as you mentioned the other day), long and (I presume) happy marriage, or inherent personality, who knows?
From what you’ve read on my blog, you must realise by now that I don’t have that sort of confidence and self belief and never have had. The responses I get from people I’ve tried to speak to about this – or who read what I say about myself – suggest that most people find this difficult to understand and refuse to accept it – this is how I know that the way I think is ‘different’ from the norm.
It does take me a long time to absorb and process information – I have to read things multiple times before anything ‘sticks’, and I have always found it hard to talk to people – it might not appear that way, but it’s like writing stories – sometimes I can do it, but I can’t MAKE myself do it because I don’t know how it happens or where it comes from – it’s not within my control.
And bizarre is spelt: ‘b-i-z-a-r-r-e’ – unless you mean a kind of market, in which case it’s ‘b-a-z-a-a-r’ 😉

By: Trevor Clifton

Trevor Clifton — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:27:50 +0000

Instant response: you’ve never answered any of my queries with anything but calmly presented, clear answers, so I don’t agree that you need more thinking time. And you must have observed by now that my passage through time is at least as chaotic as you think yours is – what makes you think that we’re different from everyone else?
Maybe you should talk to a recorder? I’d like to record quite a few of my bizzare thoughts but they usually disappear before I can write them down. Maybe I should follow my own advice!!! p.s. is that how you spell bizzare?

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