Quotes From "Both Of Me" By Jonathan Friesen

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How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from. Jonathan Friesen
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My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say Jonathan Friesen
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The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities. Jonathan Friesen
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No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the parts, right? I see one hunk of metal and then another, and the puzzle opens. They turn in my mind and just make sense. Together they all mean something. Jonathan Friesen
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Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go? Jonathan Friesen
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What's wrong with me? I lose my footing, in here.' He touched his head. 'When a neuro-typical looses their footing, they yell or escape to the TV, or maybe the doctor throws them on depression meds. But when I slip, I fall all the way through. I feel the ground give way and I'm gone. It's a crack -- a crack in what's real, and beneath there I'm stuck. Then, I guess I become someone else. Mom says I still know my name, but I walk a different world. The shrink calls it DID -- Dissociative Identity Disorder -- with a little added autism to spice up my other personality. I suppose he's right, but only I know how it feels to slip through the cracks. Then the monster shows up. . Jonathan Friesen
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We're all here. We're close to the truck, and we met Kenton, a fine citizen of Salem. We rescued Izzy and found our way through a very sad darkness, dangers that we knew from Izzy's Orion interpretation would be waiting for us. We're definitely on the right track. Jonathan Friesen
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Wanting and wishing are very different Jonathan Friesen