Positive feedback

It is incredibly nice to receive positive feedback about an experience that I enjoyed from my perspective, too. The warm glow stayed with me for several days afterwards. This is why I try to compliment my friends when they do amazing tasks or exhibit wonderful characteristics. I'm not very good at it, but I do try.


This post's theme word: afflatus, "a divine creative impulse or inspiration."

Diagnosis

Although I'm still the same, just having a diagnosis makes things better, somehow. Makes me seem more reasonable. There are other people out there like me, I am not alone. And as Steve Eley says here, now I can work with my known quirks, rather than trying to suppress them. Not that I was doing a good job of suppression anyway, since then suppressing them became an obsessive-compulsive focus... oh, recursion.

The diagnosis was accompanied by the observation that I have "incredible willpower" to function daily at the level that I do. Hooray!


This post's theme passive verb: to be neaped. That is, to be stranded aground by a neap tide (of course!).