I've already been to Turners today and come back, so now I'm in Greenfield again.

 

By the time I was 2 or 3 years old, I was a dyed-in-the-wool ancient greek skeptic. I had already adopted their "strategy of doubt." And yet at the same time -- strange contradiction -- in certain situations and with certain people I was entirely too trusting. Pushed my skepticism aside and acted on what was being fed to me (the pretenses) by another person. This complicated and disastrous (for me and my animals) contradiction in my nature persisted way into 2008. Another mistake, that I allowed this contradiction to go on. Just as I should have, as a child, embraced my autism and always fought the battle to keep other humans out, I should also have stuck hard and fast to my ancient greek strategy of doubt, never veering from it.

 

A few of Socrates' most famous quotes:

But I find that most people do not know themselves with any depth, and they don't examine themselves.

 

Yesterday my therapist said, "Anne, it's a privilege to get to know you deeply." Imagine that. Imagine someone saying that about me. And he doesn't think I'm delusional. He believes absolutely that Matthew said the things to me that he said, but we disagree somewhat about why Matthew may have said them. His mind is, though, just a little open to the fact that M. could be who and what I say he is.