MadeUpInOhio

My best friend had an illeostomy and has no anus now. She dated a guy after and when she told him, he left her. I told her she didn't have an asshole and was fine so why would she be upset about losing another one?

Edit. She may have been the one to make the joke herself and if she sees this, I'm sure she'll let us know if so. We have very similar humor.

Definitely ask more! There were Japanese internment camps in the US, Canada, and Australia. Now, they affected people living in certain areas and not every single person nation wide, so it is possible your family wasn't in one. But I bet she has fascinating stories about it all.

That was the crazy thing for me, too. I thought that when people said they were "picturing" things in their head, they were talking metaphorically.

I get that it is metaphorical either way. I suppose it is difficult to express, but I hope everyone gets what I mean. I did not realize that other people "see" things in their minds at all. As for my mind, I think in words only. I will say, conversationally, that I am "picturing" something in my mind. In reality, I am just thinking about it.

I realized around age 25 that other people see things in their head. My dad told me that he and I are writers because we think in words, whereas my mom is an artist because she thinks in pictures. And that it was just a variation on normal. Just last year, I discovered it has a name and is studied. I still think it is pretty normal. I think there are lots of us out there, we just never mention it because we don't know.

Not OP, but I LOVE fiction. However, I hate overly detailed work. Robert Jordan describing battles makes me want to cry from boredom. I didn't get why anyone would like description like that. Now I realize people like it bc it helps them picture what is happening. For me, the feelings are the most important part of experiencing fiction.