Thursday Open Thread
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group_xHello, group_xers! It's time again for another open thread. And this time someone put me in charge.
This week my brain is totally dominated by dissertation-writing/editing, so in my complete inability to think about anything else, I've decided to make the subject of this Open Thread: Achievements. What have you achieved lately that you're proud of? What are you working towards achieving, or hope to achieve someday in the future?
(Note: this doesn't just mean big achievements, or only academic ones - anything that you have or plan to achieve, however big or small, once-in-a-lifetime or day-to-day, come tell us about it! And don't feel compelled to stick to the topic if you have something far more interesting or important to share.)
Also note: today's open thread is public.
This week my brain is totally dominated by dissertation-writing/editing, so in my complete inability to think about anything else, I've decided to make the subject of this Open Thread: Achievements. What have you achieved lately that you're proud of? What are you working towards achieving, or hope to achieve someday in the future?
(Note: this doesn't just mean big achievements, or only academic ones - anything that you have or plan to achieve, however big or small, once-in-a-lifetime or day-to-day, come tell us about it! And don't feel compelled to stick to the topic if you have something far more interesting or important to share.)
Also note: today's open thread is public.
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Date: 2011-08-26 04:06 pm (UTC)I don't tell a lot of people about my asexuality, unless I'm close to them, because the subject doesn't often come up and isn't on my mind a lot and often isn't people's business (and I get bored of the 'Oh, but you just haven't met the right person yet' replies!) but I'd mentioned it a few weeks ago to a friend after we'd been chatting about various things. I actually introduced her to the concept of asexuality, as she hadn't heard of it before.
Well, she told me the other day she'd just been chatting to someone else who came out to her as asexual, but in a kind of nervous way, as if she were confiding something terribly strange and horrifying that my friend wouldn't understand. And, because of our previous conversation, my friend was able to say that she had an asexual friend, so she knew about it - which apparently cheered up this person to know she wasn't the only one. Seems like something so small, but apparently this person had been feeling really isolated, like she was the only one who didn't have feelings of sexual attraction, and hadn't realised others were the same. So it just felt like rather serendipitous timing, the two conversations.