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Decided to stop lurking, hi everyone...

mantaray

mantaray

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Hi there. I got my account just recently but it has taken a while for me to get the courage to post anything. Lately I've just been kind of observing. Although the other day, I did take a step and say hello in the chat section for the first time. I wasn't there for long but still met some nice people.

Anyway, hello. I'm 22, from the UK and was only officially diagnosed with Asperger's at the beginning of this year. I have been struggling for a long time though beforehand with anxiety and depression and never feeling quite right about who I am. My mother was diagnosed with the very same a year before me and she found it really helped her to understand herself more. I guess in a way, now that I am coming to terms with this diagnosis, I am understanding more and more about myself too.

I'm never very sure what to write in an introduction of myself, so I'm sorry if this isn't right or sounds kind of annoying. At the moment, I don't socialise at all and am ashamed to say I don't have any real "friends" like the general people my age usually do. I just thought it might be a good idea to find some like minded people here to chat with who can really understand what things are like. (Also I find talking online much easier).

Oh, a little more about myself... I absolutely adore animals and am very passionate about their welfare and love to learn about them. I also like art, video games, scandinavian television and film, anything and everything related to Tolkien and The Lord of The Rings. I am interested in psychology, marine biology and different mythologies. Also, I have two cats.
 
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Well, come on in and sit down. Here's a menu, sit at any table you like. And do let me formally welcome you to the restaurant at the end of the internet :3
 
mantaray said:
Tom Hi and thank you.
What are your favourite animals and do you have any yourself?
Are you also a fan of the film adaptations? :)
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I think I like all animals (and any creatures) at least a little. Seeing any in nature is a thrill.

But if I had to pick one as favorite it would be dogs. There is something about them I like and relate to in a way. I have 4 chihuahua & chihuahua mixes. I also have 2 finches and a dwarf african frog. I sometimes end up with the pets my family members get but no longer have time for.

Oh yes! I loved the Lotr films. Went over the deep end crazy about them. Have seen each many times. :D I enjoyed seeing the Hobbit Films in the theatre but didn't develop the same mania with them.

Have you read The Silmarillion ?
 
Greetings Lurker, your presence is valued. This is a nice place, just watch out for Riders of the Nazgul, oh and those drunken dwarves in the corner.
 
Tom said:
I think I like all animals (and any creatures) at least a little. Seeing any in nature is a thrill.

But if I had to pick one as favorite it would be dogs. There is something about them I like and relate to in a way. I have 4 chihuahua & chihuahua mixes. I also have 2 finches and a dwarf african frog. I sometimes end up with the pets my family members get but no longer have time for.

Oh yes! I loved the Lotr films. Went over the deep end crazy about them. Have seen each many times. :D I enjoyed seeing the Hobbit Films in the theatre but didn't develop the same mania with them.

Have you read The Silmarillion ?
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Aw, that is great to hear. I also love to see any in nature. It usually makes my day.

I have always been a cat person but honestly would love a dog at the moment, as I have been watching so many things about them on television recently. They seem like such great companions.

2 finches and a dwarf african frog? How exciting. The frog is an interesting one, what made you go for such an exotic pet?

I'm also guilty of seeing the films many, many, many times. They never fail to calm me down after a stressful day. Unfortunately I haven't read The Silmarillion! I have a collection which is always growing of Tolkien's books or related works by other authors and The Silmarillion is one I keep forgetting to pick up and read even though it's sitting right there on the shelf. Is it very good?
 
mantaray said:
I have always been a cat person but honestly would love a dog at the moment, as I have been watching so many things about them on television recently. They seem like such great companions.
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There is something very different about the way cats/dogs interact with people. I had a great cat, my first pet, a stray I somehow managed to get my parents to let me take in. We played together sometimes, but mostly just lived together each doing our own thing. Very low maintenance. There was affection occasionally but mostly she was aloof and just hanging out.
Dogs are more interactive and give more in a way, but also need more attention/affection. Chihuahuas which are bred as companion dogs are especially high maintenance, to keep them happy and satisfied, secure in being the most important person in the house. ;) But if you want that kind of closeness and have the time, it's hard to beat the companionship of a nice dog (and most all dogs are or can be good ones).


mantaray said:
2 finches and a dwarf african frog? How exciting. The frog is an interesting one, what made you go for such an exotic pet?
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These all were inherited or rescued. I got the finches when my daughter moved out, and I rescued the frog from my wife. :D She had bought two for her class (she's a special ed teacher) but wasn't able to care for them easily and one she lent to another teacher was lost. Just wasn't in the tank one day :eek:. So I intervened and asked if I could keep it home. They are not difficult to keep as it turns out, and keeping the tank clean is the only real work involved. I am so pleased however to have had it 5 1/2 years now and going strong. They average 5 years but can live to 20!

The Silmarilion is a different kind of story, or maybe better put, a series of connected stories that covers a longer period of time. Many people have trouble getting their head around it, as did I at first read. But when recovering from an injury I got the unabridged audio book on CD and it really came alive. The tone of it works better when read dramatically, as it was written more in the older epic style. Once you get the overall picture you see it is really one long tale about the fall of the elves in their pride and covetivness over the Silmaril gems. Its the same curse of the Valar played over and over down thru the generations.

Galadriel is one of the last of the guilty elves, living still in exile in Middle Earth. It was her refusal of the one ring, and aid to the ringbearer that finally allowed her to return to the West, where she had dwelt in the beginning. The interconnection of the stories is amazing. Many of the backrounds and ruins in LOTR are the stories and locations of the stories in the Silmarilion.
 
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