Hello... I'm Aspen. I'm 30... and feel as though I have led thus far a very long and at times very difficult life. I won't get into the details... but it's been both good and bad. I would say that I do not feel that I have the stereotypical background. I noticed that I was different when I was around 5 or 6 years old. Again I'm not going to get into the details.

I spent years playing the part of a normal person and kept my 'nightlife' to myself. I played sports, and went quite far with them. At the same time my true joys were found entertaining my other side... my more private side. As the years rolled on by I found love, started a family and continued on. My wife was brought into 'my other world' and deals with it quite well. I am often careful to the point of closing off and allowing nothing to happen or nothing to occupy my space and only recently have I begun to kind of... talk about things. At the same time I have understood that I am different and have to address it and learn to better deal with it.

At times it seems exhausting and horribly depressing. In some ways it has been emotionally and spiritually crippling and heartbreaking. I like to know things and be 'charmed' as it were, but I hate everything else that comes along with.

So... there you go. I guess that has brought me here.

Hello. My name is Aspen.