😆😆 Thank you for the chuckle. The prevailing answer to most of my personal questions does seem to be "strange brain is strange". For the most part, I am ok with this. I could wish that it didn't complicate certain things (namely social interactions), but I am me, and I have accepted that my brain is slightly off the "typical" track. Also, the more I read the stories by Ysabetwordsmith and Dialecticdreamer, the more I'm realizing some of my difficulties might actually come from missing the bottoms rungs, and not just because my brain is a little odd. So, if I find the right resources, I just might be able to coax my brain into cooperating with me, even if my path to the results is different than most people's.

Yes, I would very much like to be able to skip that part of life. Work eats so much time amd energy, and then I have very little left for what I want to do...