Comments on: Blog Persona VS real life

By: Henl.eyL

Henl.eyL — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:23:07 +0000

Hey, I really enjoy your blog. I have a blog too in a totally unrelated field (Online Stock Trading) but I like to check in here on a regular basis, just to see what’s going on and it’s always interesting to say the least. It’s always entertaining what people have to say.

By: Donnieboy

Donnieboy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:26:29 +0000

Just wanted to drop you a line to say, I enjoy reading your site. I thought about starting a blog myself but don’t have the time.
Oh well maybe one day….

By: Veronica (BumbleVee)

Veronica (BumbleVee) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:18:11 +0000

hahahha….. some of the people I know, and in particular.. perhaps relatives… probably wouldn’t recognize me from my blog… reading it makes me sound too …uhm…nice. Some days I’m a bit more bitchy than it portrays…but, at the time I am scribbling away…. things are usually pretty good, otherwise I would be somewhere else…. also, I don’t think I come across as interesting or as funny as I really am…or not. Maybe I’m not as funny or amusing as I like to think I am….. you know the old saying about not really seeing ourselves as others do…

I’ve been scrolling backwards through your blog…. your EDS is worse than mine…but, I do know what you mean when you say you hurt all the time and the tight muscles hold things in position…

In the spring I am buggered for days after attempting some gardening..my right sacroiliac joint is painful to the point of not being able to move my leg forward… it feels like my butt is going to fall off when I try to walk…. ….. some days I step up to get in the van and my knee “tweaks” as I call it…and the pain is searing… it takes several minutes just to massage it to the point where I feel like carrying on with where it was I was going. My wrists and fingers are not strong anymore either…. I’ve had carpal tunnel surgery on the right hand…need it on the left and now have a huge cluster of a ganglion on the left wrist that is impinging on one of the veins …(it used to be a simple one bump thing, but had surgery on it years ago and then when I was doing some rock work it came back with a vengeance..in several areas of the same wrist) .. I had it aspirated the other day and it was back in two days…. they don’t want to do surgery on it and really? I don’t want them to either…too many other problems to deal with if they are the least bit careless. My thumb is becoming a problem partly because of the huge ganglion mess….

….and ….on we go…. trying to deal with it all. My GP says it is such a fine line for us to try to stay strong but also try not to injure ouselves… however, we have to try or the alternative is…a wheelchair…..may I just say…. shit!!?

By: Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:36:58 +0000

Cool site, love the info.

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:24:42 +0000

I’m much more outgoing on my blog, in the sort of way that I only am with my close friends. I guess it makes sense because I’ve known a lot of my readers for years.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:48:37 +0000

I think the twitter me is cute and sporty. Sort of like a high school version of me. Short, sharp, funny and a lot skinier than I am in real person.

The blog me? Well it’s 100% me. Warts and all. And it so makes my mother (& in law) and other family members despair. I am SO over having to explain to them that I am ok etc, in fact I recently tried to explain it all here http://littlereginald.blogspot.com/2009/07/contemplation-station.html a month or so ago, and just this morning I have decided that I am going to just shut up for a while so I don’t have to justify myself anymore. Whereas readers that check in all the time get it, and enjoy it (I think?!)

It’s a tricky line to balance I think. I really enjoy your blog though….

By: Pia

Pia — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:39:14 +0000

I am 100% me on my blog, just with a sharper tongue.

loved the post.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:33:48 +0000

Fantastic post! Very thought provoking too! I’d like to think that my blog is an accurate portrayal of who I am. I do sometimes find myself compromising my true self because I feel people will judge me for things. It’s happened before a few times when I’d get chastised for feeling like a tired mom, for not having a clean house all the time, and for getting frustrated because I have a sometimes cranky baby and no down time for myself. It sucks when you put yourself out like that and people criticize. The sadder part is when the people who criticize are the people who know you IRL and are close to you.

By: Loretta

Loretta — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:08:57 +0000

I try very hard to be myself on my blog. But just the fact that I can press ‘backspace’ while writing a blog means that there is some self-editing. In addition, I started my blog to write about things that I don’t talk about in real life (like TTC, as Bea said).

By: Jenni

Jenni — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:51:34 +0000

I think about this a lot too. In some ways, yes. But, like you said, it’s snippets. I have so much more going on that I’d never put there; stuff with my parents and stuff with my husband. I yell more than I admit; I’m more fed up than I admit; I lose my cool more than I admit. I curse more and am funnier in real life. I like who I am on my blog – I laugh at myself and frustrations when I’m looking back at them. I have a much more difficult time laughing in the moment.