i made the decision to withdraw from school for the semester, even though it would be my last semester, and finish up next fall. there is just no way that i am strong enough to go back now and keep up, much less catch up. this has been an excrutiating decision to make, but it is made. no changing my mind now.

today we moved all of my stuff out of my room. my roommate wasn't even there-- she is snowtubing for the weekend with friends-- so she doesn't even know i'm gone. i hope she's not too mad that i took the tv and vcr but i want them for my room. i left her the fridge and the carpet.

there are still so many ends left untied. getting my mail forwarded. returning my books. everything about next year: housing, class registration. but i can worry about some of those when i am well. when i am stronger. when i don't feel like i'd fall over if someone breathed too hard on me.

n. thinks i made a bad decision. he doesn't support this at all. he thinks i'm smart enough to go back and catch up and make good grades. maybe not easily, but without a doubt. maybe he does not understand how sick i still am. how weak.

no, that is not true. i know exactly why he wanted me to go back to school. so i would not be at home. that is the truth i have been slow to admit in my online world. i am home right now, and i am terrified that if the people who have given me their love and support this past year knew, they would not want to have anything to do with me anymore. i don't know how many people read this journal, nor how many from asd do, but if you are, please, i beg you, don't think badly of me for my weakness.



"and isn't it ironic, don't you think" alanis morissette

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