Fully Self-Expressed Book Tour
See also the first paragraph, page 14 of the Think Big Manifesto.
This is MY manifesto-excerpt from my book about being myselves: diagnosed with multiple personalities in 1986, but I chose NOT to integrate.
It’s lonely being one of the most sane people I know. Society and psychology can disagree with me about my sanity, cubby-hole me with the people who are in need of enormous amounts of therapy, and label me so that I can never fit into their impossible definition of “normalcy”, but I’ve chosen another path. I embrace who I am in all of my glory and diversity rather than choosing to dull myself down to fit some vague definition of “normal” because to me normal means “average” and “typical” and is too close to “ordinary”. Give me a choice between living a life hardly worth living with no higher purpose, no good cause to stand for, nothing to make me stand out in a crowd – and the chance that I will be my multiple selves yet demonized, made fun of, laughed at, ridiculed, or even beaten to a pulp and left for dead somewhere, and I will choose being Out, Loud & Proud every single step of the way. In the words of Christopher R. Knadle [my partner & author of the Foreword], “I cannot be all things to all people. I am just me and you get what there is, not what you ask for.”
I’m just us. And here’s a taste of what that is.
From The Crissing Link: Poetic License - a poetic journey through the labyrinth of multiplicity (or see Amazon).
Please join me on my August Book Tour - take a look and pick a time/date/event topic that you like! You'll hear another excerpt from the book and the topic explains whatever else is going on on that particular call! :)
This is MY manifesto-excerpt from my book about being myselves: diagnosed with multiple personalities in 1986, but I chose NOT to integrate.
It’s lonely being one of the most sane people I know. Society and psychology can disagree with me about my sanity, cubby-hole me with the people who are in need of enormous amounts of therapy, and label me so that I can never fit into their impossible definition of “normalcy”, but I’ve chosen another path. I embrace who I am in all of my glory and diversity rather than choosing to dull myself down to fit some vague definition of “normal” because to me normal means “average” and “typical” and is too close to “ordinary”. Give me a choice between living a life hardly worth living with no higher purpose, no good cause to stand for, nothing to make me stand out in a crowd – and the chance that I will be my multiple selves yet demonized, made fun of, laughed at, ridiculed, or even beaten to a pulp and left for dead somewhere, and I will choose being Out, Loud & Proud every single step of the way. In the words of Christopher R. Knadle [my partner & author of the Foreword], “I cannot be all things to all people. I am just me and you get what there is, not what you ask for.”
I’m just us. And here’s a taste of what that is.
From The Crissing Link: Poetic License - a poetic journey through the labyrinth of multiplicity (or see Amazon).
Please join me on my August Book Tour - take a look and pick a time/date/event topic that you like! You'll hear another excerpt from the book and the topic explains whatever else is going on on that particular call! :)
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