Oh yes. And half off!

I'm not sure about staying through No Matter What, because, mostly, I'm that single. The partner I'm thinking of is kind of a hologram(Although not the creepy MJ one) but if I found somebody who could deal with my family, how important politics are too me, my disability crap and all the Wire Quotes, I would do my damnedest to stick with their stuff, too.(Of course, people don't think a cripple that leaves would ever have a place to go. Sort of like inmates.) Everyone said my stepdad was so AMAZING for "taking on" my mom and us.(And sometimes he did amazing things.) But my mother is an amazing person and men are lucky to get her as a partner, Now the woman he is with has four crazy kids--one has MD. Maybe that is like a kink of his, being Mr. AMAZING. Like American Will from About A Boy, but geeky.

ASDs are not a mental illness, damn it.

It's different neurology.

(I have an ASD diagnosis. I also have mood disorder characterized by severe anxiety and occasional bouts of serious depression. One is how my brain works, the other is how it doesn't. Basically.)

ASDs are not a mental illness, damn it.

Oh, right, I meant to respond to that earlier.

And...what she said.

Laura, is there any way to re-frame the discussion as addressing the problem as something other than depression? Hormonal imbalance? Possible early dementia? A pain disorder? There is clearly something awry and any number of things COULD be causing it.

Maybe if you can take the taboo notion of mental illness off the table she can deal with the functional things that are going wrong.

I think I've gotten Hubby to stop saying "I don't deserve you." I said to him once, "So that means I should leave you and find someone I do deserve?" Men of the world, this is not a compliment!

Pete has started saying something similar, and it drives me bugnuts. I know it comes from his own self-worth issues and depression, but that doesn't make it less aggravating to hear.

Sorry to jump into the middle of this with something totally unrelated, but I might be going to Hong Kong in a few weeks for some meetings about a potential new project that might also open up a few more opportunities for my company. For all sorts of reasons I can't even mention it elsewhere, and it's crazy making waiting to hear if it is happening and trying to account for what it might mean for my business.

Hong Kong! That's a huge deal, ND, and I hope things go as smoothly as possible.

Oh wow. I hope it all connects soon.

I have some very good friends there if you like to have some local contacts.

I'm sure I will want some local contacts if this all happens. The initial trip would be probably a week long for meetings, but then if the whole project goes through I might be out there fora few weeks for installation and then possibly multiple trips back over the year after opening for maintenance.