First diagnosed by her friend group in seventh grade as being "too pessimistic to hang out with anymore". This greatly improved her outlook on life.
Her family conducts most quarrels using a complicated code of smiles known as Presbyterian Sign Language. She mostly dates Jews and Catholics who mistake these constant smiles for being a "basically happy person".
She does not eat enough fiber and has bad knees. She has frequently done things... like get married to someone that she had known for all of one drunken week... for the "story potential" of the situation. Despite this, she has always been thought to be highly intelligent. She has gone out of her way, since the age of seven, to read things left around people's houses about how intelligent people behave and interact with reality. It is unfortunate, but highly telling, that one of these books was by Sartre. She has always had a deep fondness for passive voice, third-person autobiography, “putting things in quotes,” the Oxford Comma, and red wine. She has no idea how she has gotten to where she is today, which has made her stop drinking (almost) entirely.
Her only suicide attempt was thwarted by Spalding Gray. He had been fished out of the East River the day before she planned to go off the Queensboro bridge, and she didn’t want to be a copycat. At some point, she decided to do whatever scares her the most, and repeat it until she fears nothing. She currently fears success. She is not exactly sure how to overcome her fear of success while unemployed, eating cheese bagels, drinking obscene amounts of coffee, listening to Ornette Coleman, and avoiding "good intentions." She aspires to "be in love and then get some sleep."
Diagnosis: Cyclothymia, social anxiety.
UPDATE: Sofia is currently employed full-time with kick-ass medical benefits and perscription drug coverage. She is seeing a therapist again, and she no longer fears success.
Her family conducts most quarrels using a complicated code of smiles known as Presbyterian Sign Language. She mostly dates Jews and Catholics who mistake these constant smiles for being a "basically happy person".
She does not eat enough fiber and has bad knees. She has frequently done things... like get married to someone that she had known for all of one drunken week... for the "story potential" of the situation. Despite this, she has always been thought to be highly intelligent. She has gone out of her way, since the age of seven, to read things left around people's houses about how intelligent people behave and interact with reality. It is unfortunate, but highly telling, that one of these books was by Sartre. She has always had a deep fondness for passive voice, third-person autobiography, “putting things in quotes,” the Oxford Comma, and red wine. She has no idea how she has gotten to where she is today, which has made her stop drinking (almost) entirely.
Her only suicide attempt was thwarted by Spalding Gray. He had been fished out of the East River the day before she planned to go off the Queensboro bridge, and she didn’t want to be a copycat. At some point, she decided to do whatever scares her the most, and repeat it until she fears nothing. She currently fears success. She is not exactly sure how to overcome her fear of success while unemployed, eating cheese bagels, drinking obscene amounts of coffee, listening to Ornette Coleman, and avoiding "good intentions." She aspires to "be in love and then get some sleep."
Diagnosis: Cyclothymia, social anxiety.
UPDATE: Sofia is currently employed full-time with kick-ass medical benefits and perscription drug coverage. She is seeing a therapist again, and she no longer fears success.
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