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1nvadergir:

How does it tend to happen in singlets? The only explanation I currently understand from multiples is that anything can happen in-world, but I don’t have another world from which this seems possible. Could you give me an explanation? In my experience, I just feel more connected…

Depends on the person. I don’t have any phantom limbs myself (but then, neither do I have any limbs that could be phantom-ised).

My theory for how I personally became* this way? During the critical age for my development of species identity, I spent a fair bit of time around humans who acted very alien** to me. I figured that made me the alien. Add in Imagination (*SpongeBob rainbow*), the emotional detachment from my face that prosopagnosia had already given me, and significantly more force of habit than I’m comfortable admitting, and you get me in all my not-a-Changeling glory. (No, I’m not telling you what my species is actually called.)

(It’s possibly there’s some genetic predisposition: my dad’s a furry, though I didn’t know this at the time.)

I feel a bit jealous of the I-was-born-this-way otherkin sometimes. My identity seems so fragile. If I’d been told straight off about being autistic rather than my parents waiting until I was thirteen, I might be human today. Or maybe I wouldn’t. *shrug* I suppose in the end I am who/what I am, and the reasoning doesn’t need to be airtight.

*Some people are just born that way, but I don’t think I was.

**This probably had something to do with sub-cultural differences (they were in public school, I was homeschooled) and neurotype differences (they weren’t autistic).

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We Are Magneton: Welp, got duct tape on my laptop.

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The cost is no CD-ROM drive, right? Hmm, half the price in exchange for needing to borrow Mom’s desktop for Age of Empires and no DVDs without first ripping* and transferring the file. Too late for this time, but maybe when this laptop inevitably breaks down** I’ll consider it.

*Which would itself require figuring out how to rip DVDs; I’ve never actually done that.

**Not for a long time, right ‘puter? *pets laptop*

And yeah, duct tape is awesome. One of my winter boots has a tear patched up with duct tape. It’s shiny pretty grey, plus I can tell at a glance which boot is which. (I’d better like it: in Ontario, even towards the south I still need boots nearly half the year.)

[Edited because I’m so accustomed to HTML-ing my Internet stuff that I forgot I couldn’t use em tags here.]

Yeah, there’s no CD/DVD drive, but I know you can buy external ones. Idk if it could actually run AoE though; my boyfriend’s got a netbook and he can’t play many games on it. (He uses my laptop to play Civ sometimes, ‘cause his can’t handle it.)
—PM

I must admit, I’ve been using this computer for over three weeks and I don’t think I’ve used the CD-ROM drive once. I’ve been in a Runescape mood instead of AoE and all of my TV-on-laptop has been from the Internet (ILU Daily Planet).

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We Are Magneton: Welp, got duct tape on my laptop.

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It’s holding my casing together. XD

Awesome.
—PM

My last laptop had problems with the right hinge. It was held on (but stuck open) with superglue and a C-clamp for nearly a year. It was stable for quite a while, but during the three weeks after I bought…

The cost is no CD-ROM drive, right? Hmm, half the price in exchange for needing to borrow Mom’s desktop for Age of Empires and no DVDs without first ripping* and transferring the file. Too late for this time, but maybe when this laptop inevitably breaks down** I’ll consider it.

*Which would itself require figuring out how to rip DVDs; I’ve never actually done that.

**Not for a long time, right ‘puter? *pets laptop*

And yeah, duct tape is awesome. One of my winter boots has a tear patched up with duct tape. It’s shiny pretty grey, plus I can tell at a glance which boot is which. (I’d better like it: in Ontario, even towards the south I still need boots nearly half the year.)

[Edited because I’m so accustomed to HTML-ing my Internet stuff that I forgot I couldn’t use em tags here.]

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