Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses.

I'm pretty sure I've done this before but... hey, why not.

1. I've recently discovered I don't like watching people (or animals, for that matter - and particularly babies) sleep unless I can clearly see that they're breathing, or else I start worrying that they're dead.

2. When I was a child, I had trouble comprehending that I wasn't everyone else, and everyone else wasn't me. I knew it was so, but couldn't work out why. (I used to stare at the back of my brother's head and concentrate hard until I became him, but it never worked.)

3. When I was a child, I remember going into my parents' room in the middle of the night crying, because it had suddenly occurred to me that I didn't understand the concept of linear time, (although I didn't know how to express this frustration at the time.)

4. My earliest memory is of my dad changing my diaper.

5. When I was a child, I used to pray to God to give me wisdom.

6. I never have any idea of which way I'm facing in relation to the compass directions. (Yeah, yeah, I know it's a gender thing.)

7. I get lost very easily.

8. Dad says that I never went through adolesence, which I wonder at, because I do remember being a teenager.

9.  I once told my mum that I would not grow older than twelve. Mum thought it was because I had seen my older sister suffer depression as a teenager, but it was just because I didn't want to get my period.

10. I still wish I didn't have to get my period.