Re: Introspecting revealed/and re VJ too..

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 > From: LORA CRIGHTON <http://www.home.com/~lcrighton>
 > Date: Mon  Oct 26,  8:40am
 >
 > Really from: LORA CRIGHTON <http://www.home.com/~lcrighton>
 . . .   I have
 > always been extremly introverted and shy - it is only within the last 5
 > or 10 years (I'm almost 37) that I have started being more talkative and
 > outgoing and having friends.

I am still quiet, I think, at 33 years old.  I am definitely not talkative
or outgoing, nor do I have any regular friends (I have cyber-friends and
mail-friends, but they aren't "regular").

 > When I was a child, I hardly spoke at all
 > unless I had to.  I was often critised for being so quiet, especially in
 > school where "class participation" and "working in groups" was a big
 > thing - I did try, but school was hell with far more in the way of
 > people, interaction and noise than I was able to deal with.

In sixth grade, I got an award for being "quietest kid in the class".

 > My earliest
 > memory is of being taken to a nursery school and being so freaked out by
 > all the other children that I went and hid in the back of the empty
 > toy-cabinate.  My grandmother was called to take me home and I stayed
 > with her instead of going to daycare after that.

Once, I refused to go to school (kindergarten) all-together.  That was the
first and only time that my mother hit me.  She was obviously pissed.

I took the queendom test and scored 38.  I guess I'm less bad than I thought.