Posted by so on May 20, 2005, at 17:31:30
In reply to Re: » so, posted by gardenergirl on May 18, 2005, at 11:28:47
Would it settle your curiousity if I said yes, that is the second post under this screen name? Or would it lead to a new round of discussion about my traits, my interests, or the pertinance of my input? There are technical means available as well to identify my posts -- though the name "so" does tend to frustrate efforts to use the search box to find my posts. It's still useful for finding posts about various topics. :-)
If the rules are as they are described in this thread, a person is not obligated to declare a former screen name, nor to maintain a running tally of former screen names. Those rules would theoretically allow a person to establish a new screen name every week - which might be a good idea if someone didn't want personal details of their medical condition collated and used to identify them in real life. I doubt you would appreciate coming across a site where somebody had collated all the details about your life you have posted here -- maybe where you live, your marital status, your age group, what kind of work you do, what medications you take, what diagnoses you have been given, etc. I would appreciate it if you would not promote efforts to identify me beyond the discussion i am affording you at this time.
There's no need to inflate me to some mythical status. As I appreciate the structure here, group membership is an artifact of registering a screen name, not of comraderies built among a list of most-frequent posters. I'm sure there are many articulate and frustrated people who have posted similar concerns as mine -- reading the archives I occassionally see something I could have written, but I know I didn't. And I am definately not one of the people who wants to attend annual picnics, to disclose my identity to other members of the group, or for that matter to have my posts recognized for anything more than their content in that particular context. As I stated, I stumbled on this site, it is now fresh in my memory, and it is antagonizing my tendency to follow through in discussions I entered. Please respect my efforts to limit the harm those tendencies might cause me. I'm confident you can find more interesting topics with which to engage your curiosity.
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