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3:51am July 29, 2014
acepom asked: 12 for the age meme thinger

[This is where people send me an age under 34 and I tell them what I’d have blogged about at that age.]

Cocteau Twins, Enya, Dead Can Dance, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd – I’d have posted lyrics and, in the case of the Cocteau Twins, gushing descriptions of how amazing they were.  I tended at that age to listen to single songs on infinite repeat for days on end, I actually broke cassette tapes by rewinding and playing the same song too many times sometimes breaking multiple copies of the same tape.  And I’d write lyrics over and over and over again, at least, the lyrics as I understood them.  (A couple years later I’d have access to FTP sites with song lyrics, but not yet.)

Sixties pop culture.

Alternate realities.  In general.  Like not specific ones, just the idea of alternate realities.

Fractals.

Chaos theory.

Whether the world is real or not.

Bad poetry, mostly dealing with whether the world happened to be real, or with themes that seemed ‘surreal’ to me.

Surrealism, for that matter.

Dreams.  Lots and lots of stuff from dreams, including lucid dreaming which I did constantly at that age as a way of escape.

And I would have posted a lot of things that sounded like nonsense but were my way of stringing words and sentences together in unusual ways.  Some of which was communicative but a lot of which wasn’t.  

And I’d have posted things I got from hearing other people say them, and from books, all mixed together, as if it was actually my thoughts.

This is all based on what I posted on BBSes at that age, and what my special interests were.   All of this seems like a lot of interests but it’s basically all one or two interests tied together, all having to do with things that I thought made reality weird or unreal, which was my main special interest at the time.

 (Posting to actuallyautistic also, because this is a good description of my special interests at age 12, and because of the weird communication stuff at the end, which I did actually write, I just didn’t have a blog to post it on.  So I’d post it on BBSes or write it in notebooks and stuff.)

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