cln, I'm curious...which placement in the 3 sisters are you? I am the youngest of three sisters. Our middle sister died a year ago and oh, God, how I miss her.

Friends...I've never had any trouble making friends. In fact, sometimes I feel like I have to peel friends off of me...distance myself from them because I am just not interested in continuing the friendship. Some people just don't get that, or don't want to accept it.

The problem I have is that friends (and other people) usually misunderstand me. So the "fitting in" issue is a big one for me. As in...I feel like I'm along in a crowd, so to speak. There with a friend, but entirely isolated.
I am extremely fortunate in that my family is unusual. All artists and musicians. Plenty of freakiness, haha. And I've always lived in California, thank God. That said, the town in which I live is slightly more conservative than some California towns are.