weird definition of socialize

[Guest guest]

I'm cleaning my closet, and came across something quite odd.

I'd known my definition of socialization was a little off. I remember

being 14 and thinking that merely being around people and thinking about

them counted as socialization. (I still think that sometimes if I don't

watch it.)

But there was a time in 1997 when a particularly annoying day program

staff decided that I needed to write a diary, and write whatever I

wanted, except that each day I needed to write " how I socialized " . (She

would then buy me dinner if I did it for a week.)

I appear to have counted any time I left the house as socialization,

whether I interacted with anyone or not. I also do not appear to have

considered much of anything that happened *inside* the house to be

socialization, whether I interacted with anyone or not.

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" I can tell when my lover has been around the cat too long when she

begins scratching me behind the ears. " -Gail Sausser