littlesarbonn
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Joined: 12/3/2005 From: Stockton, California Status: offline
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I've been "out" most of my adult life, and in some cases it has caused problems, but I realized at some certain point that I already put myself out there, so reeling myself back in was never going to do any good. An example: Just a few days ago, two graduate students with whom I work came to my house and seemed really pleased with themselves because they had "googled" me, and were now in possession of deep, personal information about me. So I asked them what this information was that they found. Well, they talked about my published novels, my academic papers that they found referenced, and all throughout the conversations you could tell they were teetering on the desire to just come out and "say it". But they wouldn't. So, finally I said, "If you found something you really want to bring up, then just out with it. I assure you, NOTHING in my past is anything of which I am ashamed or embarrassed." But they were too embarrassed to bring it up. So I left it at that. Because I don't care. If they are now "armed" with this knowledge that I'm a lifestyle submissive, it hasn't changed anything about me, about my place in life, or about even any interactions I have with other people. My one close grad student friend knows all about my lifestyle. She kind of figured it out without having to google me because she realized I was always willing to go out of my way to help her whenever she needed it. At first, she thought it was friendship, and then she started to piece things together because she couldn't understand why I'd go WAY over what a normal friend would do in order to help her out sometimes. She confronted me with it at one point, curious as to motivation, and we had a nice, friendly conversation about it, about how I'm naturally submissive to women and will often go out of my way to help the women who exist in my life, even if there's no D/s interaction involved. And we've remained friends for years, and she's just grown accustomed to knowing she can pretty much ask me for anything and it will get done. She's become a good friend beyond that because now armed with that, she avoids taking advantage of me, and often looks out for me to make sure no one else does either. Another part of it is that I'm a writer, and years from now when people are trying to figure out what were my motivations, and I'm no longer around to steer the conversations, I'd like people to have information available about who I really was, so that they might understand that not only was I a writer of strange novels; I was a pretty strange writer, too.
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<---- FYI, this picture looks JUST like me http://www.littlesarbonn.com/Stickman/Stickman.htm The Adventures of Stickman and the Unemployed Lego Spaceman
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