The parts of all the descriptive materials that ring most true for me are those that deal with one's internal environment. I am sure to most people I appear quite normal, if not very sociable. I have developed a very adaptive 'functional self' that carries me through daily social contacts. And I have been around long enough to know that temperamentally there are those of us who just don't need a lot of group social time in order to feel OK. Plus, I am smart, and I get bored with most mundane conversations. (Sounds arrogant, but it is a fact of life) But it is the inner sense of loneliness and disconnection that can be almost intolerable at times. And, sadly, my most emotionally fulfilling relationships are with characters on dramatic TV shows. Still, I get by for the most part. I can go for months on end without noticing how lonely I am. Just when it hits...as in when I connect to my own emotional centre...then I know I need help.

There...unhijacked from this end too