Posted by pedr on January 3, 2002, at 7:44:28
In reply to Re: I act too normal. » mist, posted by akc on January 2, 2002, at 7:05:14
> > I wish I could appear the way I feel. I wish I could get across how badly I've felt and how it's incapacitated me. How sometimes I can't even think. The thoughts just don't come, just this blackness in my mind. It would help a lot of people who knew me could see this, and understand.
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> I often think if people could just experience 60 seconds of what we experience, that would be enough. They would want no more. And they would be amazed at the energy it must take to act, as you say, "too normal."
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> akcIn Iain M.Banks [british Sci-fi writer] novels, robots display different coloured auras to show the person they're talking to how they are feeling e.g. violet=angry, light blue=puzzled. I often desire some similar ability so that people around me can tell just how low I'm feeling. Then I wouldn't have to fake the "I'm fine thanks" response so often and people would know why I'm so quiet.
pete.
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