Hi

dreamingheart • 11 October 2014 at 2:00 PM

Hi. Mother of three, two of which are excitedly demanding I find "more kitties" and "where's a butterfly." They're 8, so they can't have their own. I can't tell what I've adopted, so they're kind of antsy waiting for hatching.

I'm an occasional novelist, sometime rper, and a horrible housekeeper. Currently I am procrastinating changing the sheets. I'm going to make a list so I can forget to do everything on it, like usual...

My interests are Pokemon, knitting, writing, Doctor Who and autism. Autism in the house has given me an exhaustive ability to tell Thomas the Tank Engine trains apart, Sonic the Hedgehog characters apart, and guess what evolution a Pokemon is going to have. (Surprise, I turned out to like the Pokemon while she was directing me "what to catch.") Two of my three girls have high-functioning autism, and two are identical twins. They don't overlap precisely, so I don't believe vaccines cause autism. (Identical twins, identical shots, nonidentical diagnoses!) I'm usually sane.

I'm also really good at guerrilla hair strikes, which is yes, a bad joke about being an autism mom.*

I play Dragon Cave and Subeta on occasion, participate in Nanowrimo, and homeschool one of the pair of autistics. (She has so much therapy she literally would have three day school weeks.) I'm a Terry Pratchett fan and I have aspirations to be Neil Gaiman's unofficial girlfriend forever. (My husband claims to understand. His wife, probably not so much.) I have two serial novels on Jukepop, probably under the same username because I use it everywhere (except Subeta. I'm Mim there. Hi, I'm Mim, did I even remember to give you my name?)

Now I'm just hoping nobody reads these things. Some sites, that's a pretty valid hope, you know?


*If we can joke, we aren't crying about it. I like the autism most of the time, it grows on you. Of course I'd rather it was never there, but since that's impossible, might as well embrace the strange. They put up with me, after all.

sparklefox • 11 October 2014 at 3:55 PM

@dreamingheart - Welcome to Egg Cave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

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Haha, a very interesting life you have there. Your kids sound so adorable, dunno why. Haha, autism is a rather uncommon thing in my family, or is it common? Not sure, but I myself do have autism. My mother learned to deal with it when I was a young age. She can understand me pretty well, ha. Good thing your kids aren't into the same crap little kids around my area are into, like... *shudder* ...CoD...
Well, I read it. I like to read people's welcoming posts. X3

dreamingheart • 11 October 2014 at 4:05 PM

@sparklefox

Thanks for the advice!

It's definitely a life, although I would like Daughter 1 and her best friend to go somewhere and play something that does not involve Shinedown lyrics. Although he's using the computer and she's playing Mariokart - they were supposed to play Minecraft, but she doesn't like it as much as he does (so she walked off, he hasn't noticed yet..). Confusing, I know, but they insist they're best friends, even though they spend 90% of their time screaming at one another.

Well, friends are hard to make, I guess!

My kids are an exercise in mindful sanity. I don't permit CoD because I also won't permit more than one screen in a room (except this room, two computers and the TV.) I can't stand the noise, nor can I stand the noise kids make while playing. (They say the most horrible things!) Eldest (her name's Adia) loves creepy pasta and horror games, but I'm trying to dissuade her from spending all day as a disciple of markapliers (or whatever his name is, she would know...)

sparklefox • 11 October 2014 at 4:18 PM

@dreamingheart - You're welcome~

Mario Kart is pretty fun, but Minecraft for me is only fun if someone else is playing - and in the same room talking to me. Other than that, it's pretty... boring.

Well, I think there's some sort of splitscreen-type multiplayer thingy on CoD so they can play all on one screen, but please don't quote me on that. I am not really into FPS games. Kids on CoD are so annoying. Me and my brother laugh at the screaming ones when he plays online. In fact, you'll find them in just about every game on the 360 online. They're hilarious albeit annoying. Horror/creepypasta games aren't that scary at all for me (expect this one time, where this "Slendytubby" caught me and my brother off-guard and popped up on the screen a split second before it ended. We were laughing so hard when it happened). I guess you mean Markiplier, but I don't really know. I don't watch whoever they are.

dreamingheart • 11 October 2014 at 4:28 PM

Yeah, I had my fill of trash-talk way back in the LAN Quake and Doom days. Oh, the stuff we told one another to do with their mothers (or our mothers, on one memorable occasion.) Mariokart is about my speed. She's 11, so when the Slendertubbies hop out, she's been known to pee herself (which has lost its humor, although I promise it was funny the first few times.) She still wants to watch them again, though, and the guy screams like Michael Jackson's zombie is gripping him in a tender spot.

(And her sisters are eight. Eight year old girls are superb at two things - being so picky about food that you seriously wonder if tube feeding could be a good thing, and screaming, so there is so much screaming in here some days that one of the cats has begun answering the twins as if they are his kittens. They scream, he perches a few inches away and makes concerned prrrt noises.)

I'm thinking I should have bought stock in Tylenol in another life. I would be so rich now just from my own use!

Adia recently asked to watch a horror movie, so we picked one (Cabin in the Woods) and realized we'd promptly forgotten all the off color jokes. She was more grossed out by the first groping scene than she was by the first murder (they pretty much happen together.) She hasn't asked to see another one, though!