Figures. My best friend lives in the Chicago area and that would've been a perfect excuse to get on a plane. So, naturally, she and her fam will have moved by then.

... okay, I can't fight it any longer. What do you call the members? SASSies?

And what about those people that bought the books with the individual short stories? How high does their count go bearded gnome?

I have all those, too.

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Um... huh? What button is this? Where is it?

Wait . . . we're allowed to post?

Seriously, I keep thinking I should be more involved . . . at least so I can get past the silly limit that keeps me from having an avatar.

But it somehow seems too . . . social.  People kidding, chatting each other up, interacting as if friends . . . it took me a long time to wean my real life friends from all that social stuff; don't know if I want to start it here.  It seems a big bother, what with having to care, and actually read, what others are saying. 

No, I guess I'll hover in the less-than 0.01 posts per day for a tad longer.

"interacting as if friends"... There's no "as if"; while the knee-jerk reaction is to assume that online interactions aren't "real", I can confirm it to be false. Consider:

1) I've made a number of real-life friends through online forums, chatrooms and the like. People whose lives matter to me and to whom my life matters.
2) Many friends I made in "real life" live far away from me now, and those friendships are largely maintained very strongly through continued online interaction; to me, it's a completely logical extension of continuing friendships over great distances via telephone and letters.
3) I have been married for eight years to a woman who was among the first people I met when I ventured online.

Sounds pretty real to me. But hey, I'm just one guy, and I could be wrong.

well said "jackasses" as you put them should stop hounding me then
or i will start a pertition to get dyslexic english as an exsepted form of english
it gets rather annpoying after the umpteepth time

Fahn, then Ah'll git uh p'tishn up an' runnin' fer Southern English, too. 'Cause y'all don't talk raht.

Not the same thing. And that's a little offensive to Americans to speak of our being allowed to write in a version that has grown organically to be different from UK English, as though we're biologically incapable of writing in UK "received English".

Besides, "it was around first" doesn't automatically place a higher value; if that were the case, we Anglophones would be writing in Old English.

Anyway, I suspect the "socially acceptable" part is just a case of people who are self-centered enough to refuse to try to understand what a dyslexic is writing. It's difficult, yes, but it's socially required that they try.