Thank you Sherli..you are very sweet. I am sure you have many wonderful unique qualities but are far too modest to remember them!

Janine - It's fine. It's all fine.
As the song goes, "I enjoy being a girl!" Why shouldn't you, too?
Sherli - Everyone is unique, you just haven't recognized in what way you are.

sherlockskitty wrote:

It's wonderful of you to admit to that, SP,  I  am glad you felt comfortable enough to do it.

Another way I'm unique  and i  mentioned this in another thread--  I am  hearing impaired in both ears,  have been since birth.   Nerve damage.   The little nerve hairs  (they look like porcupine sticks that stick  up,  or  like the feet of jellyfish upside down)   have  been  bent out of shape  by  something or other.   Or they  are just not THERE.  So,  I  have to wear hearing aids.   the ones I have now are not working according to plan.   I'm so not pleased.   


To get around this 'bloody'  disadvantage,   I   sometimes  tell ppl  when I first meet them...'I'm deafer than a doorknob'   and that always breaks the tension that I feel.

Thanks kitty...yes I feel quite comfy here Sort of like sitting around the fire at the original 221B We have the ear thing in common, you poor thing. I have Meniere's Disease and have very little hearing left in my right ear. My boyfriend snores so I just sleep on my left side.. Works out well

Irene Adler wrote:

Brave of you, SP, to share something as intimate as that. Of course it changes absolutely nothing about how I feel about you. Well, in fact it does... I think doing something like that requires (sadly still nowadays) a lot of courage and self conscience most people doesn't have. So, from the bottom of my heart, bravo for you.

Irene I adore you...thank you

SP, my deepest respect to you for sharing this with us.
I view myself as a Buddhist in the making and try to meditate each day. It has helped me enormously when I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease one and a half years ago. I am feeling very well at the moment and try to enjoy each day as it comes - and my time in this forum  .

Janine - you rule!  I'm still pretty new here and haven't a lot of time to sort out the personalities that go with the avatars, but I always find your posts to be wise and kind.  Nothing you've revealed on this thread changes my mind in any way.  I'm so happy for you that you have become what you were meant to be and have found peace and happiness.

I guess my one unique trait is that I have a decent soprano voice and have made a bit of extra cash singing for weddings and funerals. I've been singing with a local choral group for a number of years - heavy duty classical stuff, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven - but my first love is musical theater and light opera.  I'm a dreadful actress but thanks to my voice I've been fortunate enough to play such roles as Maria in "The Sound of Music" and Guinevere in "Camelot" in amateur productions. I've always been fascinated by stagecraft and the creative process of a production. Unfortunately, this is not what I do for a living - but wish it could be.

Molly Hooper wrote:

Yes, SP, it doesn't matter at all! From what you've written I think you are a very lovely woman!!
And girls are better than boys! 

Molly, thank you. How kind. You are all so wonderful here. I wish I could meet you in person. We need a big party

SusiGo wrote:

SP, my deepest respect to you for sharing this with us.
I view myself as a Buddhist in the making and try to meditate each day. It has helped me enormously when I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease one and a half years ago. I am feeling very well at the moment and try to enjoy each day as it comes - and my time in this forum  .

Susi.. i will put you in my prayers...i hope your illness stays under control...bless you

Sentimental Pulse wrote:

sherlockskitty wrote:

It's wonderful of you to admit to that, SP,  I  am glad you felt comfortable enough to do it.

Another way I'm unique  and i  mentioned this in another thread--  I am  hearing impaired in both ears,  have been since birth.   Nerve damage.   The little nerve hairs  (they look like porcupine sticks that stick  up,  or  like the feet of jellyfish upside down)   have  been  bent out of shape  by  something or other.   Or they  are just not THERE.  So,  I  have to wear hearing aids.   the ones I have now are not working according to plan.   I'm so not pleased.   


To get around this 'bloody'  disadvantage,   I   sometimes  tell ppl  when I first meet them...'I'm deafer than a doorknob'   and that always breaks the tension that I feel.

Thanks kitty...yes I feel quite comfy here Sort of like sitting around the fire at the original 221B We have the ear thing in common, you poor thing. I have Meniere's Disease and have very little hearing left in my right ear. My boyfriend snores so I just sleep on my left side.. Works out well

I had to chuckle about the doorknob comment. I have fine vision with my glasses or contacts, but extraordinarily bad vision without. I swim regularly and have to tell people I meet at the pool that I am blind as a bat and not to be offended when I don't recognize them next time. Really, I have even walked right past my own next-door neighbor in the locker room without so much as a hint of recognition.

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