Posted by:
alexisar
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Date: February 27, 2015 04:41AM
Hello! I'm Alexis. I may not be the only Alexis here, so I distinguish myself as"aslexisar." I'm not sure of the protocol of self-introduction at this site. It seems that some long-timers appear to feel that "newcomers" should be essentially neither seen nor heard for a respectable yet undefined time interval.
If it matters to anyone here, I've done my time in terms of lurking and reading at least semi-regularly,as in since I was fourteen years old and had limited Internet use. I'm now twenty,and my Internet use is restricted only by time I must spend in school, in studying,and in real life. In any event, I certainly have no parental controls encroaching upon my Internet activity.
I posted on a few occasions before as a guest. I was greeted in a most un-cordial manner by two registered members in particular. I've since observed that neither of the two posters to whom I refer make it a regular practice to engage in polite conversation with virtually anyone else here other than maybe each other and, for lack of a more eloquent description of how I see their postings, to occasionally kiss the @$$es of the administrators.
For this reason I've decided that I will go semi-public, register and will take my chances with being ignored or receiving unkind responses. I'm a big girl now and can deal maturely with the emotions involved in Internet message board interactions and can take things with a grain or two or three or a whole handful of salt rather than allowing my feelings to be hurt.
I may be known to some of you as the niece of scmd and by my blogspot account. I will occasionally post, but as was the case before I registered, I'm here primarily to learn and to help myself to make sense of Mormonism as I have been impacted by it.