I'm really glad misia wrote that entry, and that so many people have linked to it, for a variety of reasons. Most of them are the obvious and common ones.
That I stumbled across your LJ was another of the good things that came out of No Pity. No Shame. No Silence. -- for me, anyway.
I've friended your journal, and added it to a filter I use when posting personal stuff and don't feel like fielding the "wait, what?" questions relating to "Jack is what gender, again?" (It's a good question, for which I still don't have a good answer, other than "not male and not female.") I don't use the filter much, though; my journal's usually more for my fannish interests than my personal life. Feel free not to read my LJ or friend it, I won't be offended.
I usually don't introduce myself this way when I friend someone's journal, partly because it's usually a fairly obvious match of fannish interests. In this case, though, it didn't seem like it would be immediately obvious that I first felt a resonance when I read your first comment on Hanne's post, or that there was even more as I read your LJ bio and the longer biographical sketch linked from there.
I live with FMS, too, something else that wouldn't be obvious. I'll probably be posting about this within the next week or three, but in case you don't see that, have you heard that there are now clinical trials testing testosterone as a treatment for fibromyalgia, with promising early results?
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That I stumbled across your LJ was another of the good things that came out of No Pity. No Shame. No Silence. -- for me, anyway.
I've friended your journal, and added it to a filter I use when posting personal stuff and don't feel like fielding the "wait, what?" questions relating to "Jack is what gender, again?" (It's a good question, for which I still don't have a good answer, other than "not male and not female.") I don't use the filter much, though; my journal's usually more for my fannish interests than my personal life. Feel free not to read my LJ or friend it, I won't be offended.
I usually don't introduce myself this way when I friend someone's journal, partly because it's usually a fairly obvious match of fannish interests. In this case, though, it didn't seem like it would be immediately obvious that I first felt a resonance when I read your first comment on Hanne's post, or that there was even more as I read your LJ bio and the longer biographical sketch linked from there.
I live with FMS, too, something else that wouldn't be obvious. I'll probably be posting about this within the next week or three, but in case you don't see that, have you heard that there are now clinical trials testing testosterone as a treatment for fibromyalgia, with promising early results?
(no subject)
So, I have to grow a beard to feel better?
#&^%@%