User:	refugees_of_lj (posted by dkmnow)
Date:	2008-03-29 00:14
Subject:	Introdookie
Security:	Public

1. Post a comment to this thread and tell us your name. User name or real name, what ever is most comfortable to you.

"Dkmnow" is my ubiquitous moniker (though I do have an "alter-ego" of sorts, which is none of your business). It is not, as some have assumed, some clev-var-ly obscene expression of macho wankerism. It is simply my initials followed by the word "now." No, you projected that. Now, give me that crayon, and go wash your mind out with soap.

2. Something about yourself that you think is interesting. Do you dance, sing, write, draw, or tell some funny jokes? Let us know a little about you.

I am an "Asperger's Autistic," and like most of my brethren, I will blithely confound your comfortably habitual stereotypes without caring or even noticing. Cope. WE do. I am also a "radical agnostic" (where "radical" refers to that which is sine qua non, as opposed to militant or extremist), apparently similar to what Robert Anton Wilson (about whom I know very little) described as "Model Agnosticism," and somewhat aligned with the fundamentals of Buddhist philosophy. An extreme distillation of my guiding principle yields the (deceptively) paradoxical statement, "I don't believe in belief." Peel that onion. And this one: I live on exactly one hundred dollars per month. I don't shop at Mal-Wart. I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but I record Bill Moyers' Journal "religiously" every week. You do the math. I consider myself somewhat transgendered, and somewhat bisexual, given highly specific circumstances. I am, however, both single and celibate, and plan to stay that way. My grandfather grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, during the height of Mark Twain's literary popularity, and embodied all of the pretentious elitism of that social tradition, but none of its presumed depth of spirit or character. He had a black maid, which, we are to understand, conclusively proved his progressive character. Yeah. His "humanitarianism" was all for public display, like that of most people today, but not a shred of it could be spared for his own family. As it turned out, I was neurologically/developmentally incapable of internalizing the "moral" example that he so ineptly provided. I simply had to find my own way. Still, I like to think I have had a hand, however accidental, in correcting that legacy of hypocrisy he left to us. Thus, despite being a Midwestern white male (and because of it), owing to all of the above, I am a de facto (but marginalized) member of several distinct and seriously marginalized "out-groups." Outcast among outcasts. A leper's leper's leper. Triple-Jeopardy, with a twist of hemlock. Drink up.

SO. Anyone for a game of Bigot's Bingo? Go ahead, tell me you don't hold any of that against me. I dare ya'! >:-D

3. Your top three interests. These don't necessarily have to be the same interests in your profile.

Autistic self-advocacy, justice, human/civil rights in general.

4. (This is for my own research) How did you find this Asylum?

Uuuuum ... asylum_promo? Srsly, I don't remember.

5. What are you most hoping to get out of this community?

New "friends," sure, but mainly, reconnecting with old LJ f-listers. For them, I want to be as easy to find as possible, but without flooding my Friends Page with generic-asylum crap I'll never read. I get enough of that from the BoingBoing feed.

6. Why did you leave Livejournal? If you can't pick a specific reason, then how about a date? Or what was the one thing that broke the camel's back?

In general, the usual reasons: Strikethrough, Boldthrough, The TOS Shell-Game, Sponsored V-Girfts, and finally the sale to SUP. I created this account during the V-Gift backlash, and when the sale to SUP was announced in December, the torrent of vapid corporate bullsh*t was just more than I could stomach. As I have said elsewhere, I don't know which was sadder: watching them put lipstick on a turd and call it a bunny, or watching half their users line up to cuddle it. I posted that my account there would be deleted at midnight on Dec. 31st. But then one day I went to my journal only to find the every single post had ben placed behind a warning cut. That was The Final Ultimate It. I deleted on the spot, almost two weeks early, and set to work on beefing up my account here.

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