My Favorite Topic: Meee

In SL, people at Brigadoon call me: Rain (short for Rainmaiden). The image - to the left - is of me taking my virtual pet bunny for a stroll. He's fast; he's lost somewhere in the virtual world. If anyone sees him, please send him back home.

In RL, I don't appear the same as the image depicts; I don't have pinkish-purplish color skin, and I'm not bald.  I've AS. The diagnosis has been an enormous relief.

The aspect I value most about SL, and appreciate about John having launched Brigadoon, is: In Second Life, I also have no physical disability; I can walk or run when I want!  A couple of my favorite sites, I shared with friends after telling them about Asperger's, are:

• The Oak Manifesto
• A Credo For Support (Video); A Credo for Support (Poster)

I chose the name Rainmaiden for SL. For years, my friends had called me Rain Woman, and a college professor continuously encouraged me to see the movie "Rain Man." They said I reminded them of the Dustin Hoffman character and of that movie  - in the days when I was mis-diagnosed. No one, who knows me in RL, was surprised when I was diagnosed with Asperger's. To me, it meant, people would stop trying to "fix" me or want me to take medications that have no efficacy for Asperger's.

Some of my favorite images (taken at Brigadoon) are below:

Hewie (pictured right) is also a "resident" of Brigadoon. I sort of hugged him once, only he was standoffish - or shy. 

This is the first house I built: