exhaustedIt's no secret around here that I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; I manage it on a daily basis, and I do a pretty good job. It's why I can accomplish as much as I do, given how little time I have. But it does mean that some things are non-negotiable for me, even as I politely tell people that they don't have to do them.
One of those things is responding to comments.
Sometimes, when I get overwhelmed, kind and concerned and loving people try to grant me comment amnesty. "You don't have to answer this." BUT I DO. I answer comments because I have to answer comments, or I literally cannot forget that I have left them unanswered. It may take me a long time. I may answer so far in the future that you've forgotten commenting. But unless I was the one who said "comment amnesty" (and sometimes not even then), I can't leave the majority of comments unacknowledged.
(This came about, ironically, because someone got very very very angry at me for not answering comments, and left me with a terror of being screamed at again.)
So please, don't tell me I don't have to answer you. That will just stress me out more, and move answering your comment to tell you that I do so have to answer higher up my priority list.
This has been another day of Seanan, living with OCD. Have a cookie.
ETA: Because I apparently wasn't clear: I love comments. I enjoy answering them. What stresses me out is other people trying to declare comment amnesty on my behalf. I can't process that, and so it just makes me unaccountably tense and unpleasant. So please, comment as normal. Just don't try to tell me I don't have to answer you, 'cause really, I do.
March 15 2012, 15:32:35 UTC 5 years ago Edited: March 15 2012, 15:33:22 UTC
That being said, I have to say I'm really enjoying the October books. (Well, I have enjoyed them -- I'm near the end of One Salt Sea). Armageddon is waiting for me at home. No action item -- just that I really like your writing.
(Though I cannot help but mention that it seems to me that Blind Micheal is her old Fagin, Devin, writ large. Well, writ huge. I wonder if that made it easier for his glamour to work.)
Thank you for telling me such good stories! :)
May 4 2012, 19:49:18 UTC 5 years ago