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- From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Killefiles ** SPOILER ALERT **
- Message-ID: <memo.896610@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:11:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
- Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
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- [This deals with why I use a killfile, it was intended as a private
- email to Doug, but I think you all need to know why I did it so you
- see that I have my own now-not-so-private reasons for doing it. If
- you don't think you can deal with the core dumpings of an abused
- person then please don't read on....]
-
-
- Killfiles are seen by some to be an act of violence against another
- net.person. My use is as a self protection mechanism:
-
- Let me explain:
-
- I have no objection to anyone in this group, not Doug, nor the
- Chatsubo-types that occasionally make a foray into the group, I post
- and interact with other people, it's not my place to judge or make
- judgements about others. *HOWEVER* a trick I learned in
- alt.sexual.abuse.recovery was to killfile people who consistantly
- caused me pain -- sometimes because their stories (and subsequent
- core dumps) were too close to my experiences (and they *HURT*), I
- know that it'll never stop hurting me, but as I go down the path of
- healing I develop newer and better ways of dealing with it.
-
- Doug -- that kind of cynicism is almost exactly like the behaviour
- one of my abusers used to build a power-base over me, he used it for
- his own ends and you can all see the results in previous postings. It
- was too close to a memory, you were saying "you respond as you see
- fit"?, similarly I reserve the right to deal with my own memories in
- my own way and my own time. At all times I am aware that it is *you*
- Doug saying these things and when I am stronger I can pull your
- messages out of the killfile archive and place them back in the
- thread where they rightfully belong -- but until then I am too weak
- to really face up to those memories your mannerisms inadvertantly
- throw up -- it would be the same for any other patron here. I have to
- deal with memories in a way that will not cause me to have another
- breakdown.
-
- Anyone that has seen me go through an abuse flashback (two people
- here -- one a lurker) will have seen me "frown" just before the image
- hits my consciousness -- sorry I was being obtuse there. Hence
- Tanais' "frown" wrinkling across his forehead -- character acting
- gets in the way... As a vulpiform, Ro'Jiro Tanais was remembering the
- abuse inflicted on him as a cub. It's a technique I've been using to
- make sure I can get at memories that have been so deeply buried that
- I (as Clive) can't dig out. Have you read Anne McCafferey's "Pern"
- books? Where the Thread hits the earth and burrows deep? That's like
- all my memories between the ages of 6-10. As a Fox cub I approach it
- in a wholly different way. I also put "real" events into my
- net.persona so that I don't develop an unhealthy desire to *be*
- Tanais -- in case I create a character that had a "better" (or at
- least abuse-free) childhood than I.
-
- I'm not looking and don't accept an apology from Doug because *he
- doesn't have to give me one*. It's not his problem, it's mine -- and
- I am dealing with it in the best way that I know how. Killfiles are
- an unfortunate name for my Offline Reader because I have an option
- set where "killed" messages are spooled off into their own files --
- along with the home accounts software, dougs "killed" messages are
- also backed up so that I can read them when I'm stronger.
-
- Tanais, sits down and plays with his tail. Nervous and anxious that
- he's got everything across the way it should be. He doesn't want to
- be kicked out of the Place for using a killfile. He just wants to
- "belong".
-
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- | .. "When I grow up, I want to stop being a computer journalist|
- | .OO. and learn how to write." |
- | O/\O |
- | -- Tanais - friend to all furkindred|
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- |cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk | Bisexual knitter of quality since 1992|
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