Thank you both so, so much. Your "grandmother" loved the work I'd put into the original Exchange. She was a longtime lurker, though she wasn't interested in posting!

OK, haven't checked in for a while, but just wanted to say hi, and in SMALL WORLD news, I think my daughter and I know your pod-spouse! Pretty sure hers are among the animals at the farm where my daughter does her 4-H alpaca work, and semi-sure she owned one of the ones Sarah worked with!

That makes me happy, actually. I would be like, uh, better give me a football field's worth?

CT, I'm thinking of you. Interestingly you described something very well that I believe my 15-year-old daughter struggles with - this lack of differentiation of time - and she has never been able to make me "get" what is going on nearly as well as you just did. She will have two hours to spare between events, but if the first event takes 5 minutes longer than she expects, she cannot grasp how much time will then pass before the next event, or whether she has "enough" time to still go there. 

Not quite the same, I understand, but the lack of concept of the space time takes up really resonates with me. 

As a completely random aside, a fun fact about me: I cannot tell time. I mean, I have had it explained to me 60 ways til Sunday. I was a math major. I get it - academically - sort of. But I cannot look at a clock and have any concept of what time it is. I'm usually quite wrong, and it's been embarrassing at points in life where, say, you're stuck in a room taking a test for a job and there's only an analog clock and you wear no digital watch. Oof.

Not really sure what one has to do with the other except I hope you feel less alone in knowing that I am ALWAYS glad to "talk" as it were, even about the minutia of my time-telling disorder.

Big hugs. 

CT, I haven't been on in a while, but spent today catching up and realized you also have not written in a bit. Hope all is OK. I think of you often and hope you're doing well. I'm venturing back into the counseling/psychiatry system again after kind of throwing my hands up at the whole thing a few years back, and my return is in large part thanks to you. I'm trying to be honest with myself and things are not as stable as they had been, and doing what I've been doing isn't quite enough any more, so I figured help is the next step. We have a lot of the same challenges in life and I feel like when I read your "random thoughts," I end up understanding myself better.

So I really appreciate it... and hope to see more from you soon.