Recent content by Helyna

Merry Christmas and happy new year! May this Christmas bring you joy and may the new year bring you hope.

I'm doing a flute ensemble with three other people, and today I had to change the time of our practice. My mom was going to do it until she realized that the numbers I had were for cellphones, not housephones, so she'd be talking to the girls, not the parents. So I was stuck calling them all...

I'm reading the book Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, sequel to Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. Basically, humans have spread over the galaxy to planets semi-connected through lightspeed communication but slow travel. One of the planets has a Chinese-influenced culture, and there are...

I think it can. It can keep you thinking negatively. If you really are SP, I can't tell you not to say so, but for me, it's probably better to say I'm not. I'm just socially anxious. I don't have the disorder. I'm too close to the edge, so calling myself SP can push me in the wrong direction.

I've played the piano for 11 years and flute for 6. I've just started in the past couple of years to relax when I play the piano. Playing flute is uncomfortable because I'm so tense. I prefer pieces that don't require a lot of expression when I play the flute, though I can deal with...

My depression has returned after several months away, and I consider it to be worse than the first time. I can't concentrate, and I'm finally slipping in schoolwork. It goes up and down through the day and through the week, though. It always has. Anyway, one of my friends at school is...

If my parents ask me to do something - anything - that I have already planned but don't want to do, I panic and yell at them. It's like I already put enough pressure on myself without them asking me when I'm going to do it. I get really mad at them sometimes for reminding me to do things. :(...

"Don't Laugh at Me," a song done by Peter, Paul, and Mary (a sixties folk/protest-type group - yes, I am a few decades behind the times, but they're still singing).

Want someone to blame your phobias and lack of social skills on? Here you go! I say we choose a day to all mob him with SP-related complaints. http://www.blamesteven.com/

http://www.arcamax.com/pic/61985/892305 This is me. This must have been going on my whole life, and I've recognized that I do it, but I've only just noticed in the past few weeks how strange it is. I think it partly came from a joke my mother has. If we predict that something will happen, she...

We have to give a five-minute powerpoint presentation on a landmark in Paris (mine is Notre Dame) for French class. In French, of course. So not only do I have to make a powerpoint (which I've only done once, and that time with friends), but I have to do it in FRENCH. 8O I think I'm going to...

There's a long story before I get to today's issue, so bear with me... There was this boy in PE and science with me in ninth grade. He was from India, and I always like to get to know foreign people. So we started talking in the long times during PE that we didn't have to do anything. At the...

Is it possible to be normal? Not in general. You can be normal for a certain group of people, or normal in specific areas, but I don't think anyone really is normal. Otherwise, we'd all be alike, and life would be boring. So why do people obsess with being normal? Because it makes us feel...

It's true. It's so true. Selfishness is the root of all my problems. Really! Everyone is not watching me at every opportunity. Everyone is not watching my parents (or friends, brother, or anyone else who can embarrass me). Everyone is not listening to me. Everyone is not listening to my...

Would prospective employers/colleges really look up our activity online? One of my teachers say they can and some do. Wouldn't that be a whole lot of work to find out about one person? (Okay, I understand with government jobs, but I don't think I'll apply for those.) And how would they if...