Rather than respond in comment, I'll just work a running dialogue with the previous comments. I'm (nominally) on LiveJournal, but it's not very active. I wish there was a blog site that had the best of both:

• LiveJournal notifies you when someone posts a comment. JournalScape doesn't.
  
  
• JournalSpace notifies you when someone posts a blog. LiveJournal doesn't.
  
  
• LiveJournal has a 'Friends Page' feature where you get 20-or-so most recent entries from your friends' blogs.
  
  
• LiveJournal has multiple groups, so you can specify which groups of users (that you create,) such as "My High School Alumni," "Parents," "Authors," or a particular person (a group of one) to view an entry.
  
  
• LiveJournal has some users from my previous-previous writing site, some five or so years ago.
  
  
• But JournalScape has you folks.

Don't get me started on MySpace. It may have lots of users, but it's just painful to look at. BlogSpot is beautiful to look at, I don't know anyone on it.

It all comes down to the people (though MySpace is just so plain butt-ugly that I cringe when I see that a friend has posted an entry, and may skip reading it on that alone.)

Babs: I think the formal classification for Asperger's is "an Autism Spectrum Disorder." Autism is a spectrum, and the low-functioning form is pretty low. Let's put it this way: Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man character is considered only moderately autistic.

At any rate, Aspies tend to 'scatter' in ability from domain to domain as well. Some Aspies, such as Louise (it's not an outing, she mentioned it in her comments) are very high functioning, able to pass for NeuroTypical (NT.) Others may simply be viewed as abrasive. SpouseKitty has a joke saying when I'm being difficult: "Are you being an ass or an Aspie?" (Either way, I tend to re-examine my stance.)

Louise: I'm sorry, that's personal. =) Brat.

Seriously, thanks for the reassurance. My biggest fear with Kitten is that she's not always cognizant that her actions have effects on other people, usually adverse effects. She's just not aware of the world around her so much of the time.

Reenie: Fear not. If it's truly private, I'll tell a nosy someone to sod off. See above, e.g. :) (I adopted Louise as my 'younger sister.' If I don't insult her from time to time, I'd be derelict in my duty... And besides, she knows. If she truly didn't know, she'd simply ask with a "?" The question mark - it's not just punctuation, it's a whole sentence.)

I do write for me, but I can write differently, about different topics. I've been trying to write "for posterity," to leave thoughtful posts that are insightful or otherwise of use to others. Okay, maybe only a few others, but still others. Some are g33ksp33k, others are writing-oriented.

Here, this is just SoC stuff. Open browser, disengage safety, type away. Hope it doesn't let people down.

netta: Thank you, hun. The hardest part of being a parent may be to see the little chick stall out of her first flight, but the second hardest may well be to look at her sleeping form in the days and months before, thinking, "will those wings support her?"

This is why I'm trying to blog daily on JournalScape -- you are my friends. I don't have many in the real. I'm closer to many of you here than I am to any coworker, fellow boardgamer, racquetball player, etc. Only my high school classmate is closer, and he's clear across Lake Washington.

You are what matters. Thanks for reading.