Brick Walls

[Llama]

Thanks for those who shared their ideas and thoughts. I wish the threads wouldn't expire so soon, but I wanted to let you know that I read and appreciated your ideas.

Since I posted the original thread, I developed severe kidney stones that seemed to take me off my quest, although seeing a urologist may actually be useful, especially since many of my childhood issues and defects fell (and still fall under) urology for many doctors. (I had a local Endo tell me to basically get lost and find a urologist when I started describing some of the external anomalies and defects with which I was born - no curiosity on his part whether hormones were off, just a pavlovian response and that was it.) So anyway, hoping the probing will yield me a useful ultrasound since MRIs are basically worthless most of the time.

As for an alternative medicine type doc, I just began seeing one before the stones hit. Very disappointing, but maybe things happen for a reason.

On a side note, the more I've embraced my differences and stopped feeling ashamed of them and consequently the more I've liked myself, the more others seem to like me. Even my friends say I seem younger and happier. One key thing that transcends all of the ways we are different from "normal people" is whether we are happy, functional people. If we are, no matter what others will find us hard to resist. Just ask Stephen Hawking.