This is serious but also funny in a way

[Trevor]

I've been to three psychiatrists in my fifty plus years on this earth.

All three of them threw up their hands and said that they couldn't get through to me, despite me being 100% open and telling them all about myself and wanting help from them.

My teachers (with one exception at college) said pretty much the same thing: one of my high school teachers told my folks that "Trevor is almost unteachable and I cannot get through to him".

Dad asked her if I was a bad student, she said no. "Trevor does well in his tests and exams and for someone who is a bit bookish, he actually likes his sports." [I still do] Dad's advice to her was "If Trevor is doing OK (and I know he is), just leave him alone."

My work mentor has taught me much over the years: she (and my college teacher) got through to me and shoved me in the right direction - as my folks did - so they managed this: what is wrong with the others?

Kids and young people like me: it's just the adults who don't know me who go   and say "Whoa: F that guy."

Explain me please: I can't. Neither could they.  

[LilCerberus]

Sounds about right....

[RCMerchant]

Your fine, Trevor. I was diagnosed in 1989 that I had PSTD and some other s**t.
My whole family has been some kind of crazy. My brother Mike went to prison for 3 years and a funny farm for 3 years. He stabbed a woman who picked him up hitchhiking in 1981, and after 3 years in prison, he attacked a woman who he went to church with and her child in a shopping mall on Long Island with a baseball bat.
My brother Glenn was sent to the nut house after he attacked some guy who was f**king his girlfriend in a drugstore with a screwdriver, then went home and cut his own throat. My brother Richie cut both his wrists parked on an obscure boat landing. He didn't cut them across. He cut them down both his arms. He's dead now. He shot himself in the head.

[Trevor]

Your fine, Trevor. I was diagnosed in 1989 that I had PSTD and some other s**t.
My whole family has been some kind of crazy. My brother Mike went to prison for 3 years and a funny farm for 3 years. He stabbed a woman who picked him up hitchhiking in 1981, and after 3 years in prison, he attacked a woman who he went to church with and her child in a shopping mall on Long Island with a baseball bat.
My brother Glenn was sent to the nut house after he attacked some guy who was f**king his girlfriend in a drugstore with a screwdriver, then went home and cut his own throat. My brother Richie cut both his wrists parked on an obscure boat landing. He didn't cut them across. He cut them down both his arms. He's dead now. He shot himself in the head.

OMG Ronnie, I'm sorry. 

[RCMerchant]

All I'm trying to say, man, is your going to be OK!, my friend.

[ER]

I can answer that, Trevor.

You've been too honest a person to try to go through life faking normality as most people do. You've been yourself, and there's often a heavy price that comes with honest individuality. But I hope you don't change, because there are 7.4 billion humans on the planet who aren't you, and one who is, and based on knowing you in here for almost fourteen years I'd say the world has been a better place with you as you are, a caring, kind man, underwear fixation and all. ;-)

I hope you've been having a good winter and everyone else here a good summer.

Namaste

[Trevor]

All I'm trying to say, man, is your going to be OK!, my friend.

Hugs, Brother 

[Trevor]

I can answer that, Trevor.

You've been too honest a person to try to go through life faking normality as most people do. You've been yourself, and there's often a heavy price that comes with honest individuality. But I hope you don't change, because there are 7.4 billion humans on the planet who aren't you, and one who is, and based on knowing you in here for almost fourteen years I'd say the world has been a better place with you as you are, a caring, kind man, underwear fixation and all. ;-)

I hope you've been having a good winter and everyone else here a good summer.

Namaste

Thanks: that was very sweet.

Been quite cold here: freezing in the mornings, warm by about 10 am and then chilly by 4 pm. In bed by 8 pm with a cup of hot South African brown water  (what we call coffee here) and several turtle friends and that's me.

I'm actually glad for those 7.4 billion other peeps on the planet that aren't me  

[Rev. Powell]

If Trevor is doing OK (and I know he is), just leave him alone.

[Trevor]

If Trevor is doing OK (and I know he is), just leave him alone.

 

Thanks, Rev.

Hard to believe that Dad told my teacher that in 1980 (my first year of high school).