disneycub
King of Hugs & Smoochies!
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- Jan 17, 2000
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This story is for everybody teetering on the registration fence.....
Believe it or not, I'm a very quiet person....not great with social skills...pretty much in my own shell. Online, I may be different....sometimes outrageous....and that's a part of me as well. But there's a comfort being in front of a computer screen. You can be anonymous. You're "safe."
Before DISCON I, I pretty much had myself convinced that I would live out my life by myself, with very few close friends. But something told me to register and go to Orlando.
The prospect of meeting a bunch of people I really didn't know absolutely terrified me. I told myself I would have nothing in common with them. I told myself I would spend all my time in my room alone.
Once I landed in Orlando, I got my rental car, checked in to the hotel, smoked many many cigarettes, and headed out to the Wilderness Lodge. I was so nervous. I remember looking up to the stars and saying, "Mom, ya gotta help me get through this." She had passed away a few years before.
I can say without reservation that my life changed that first night. I was welcomed with open arms. I've made friends from all over the world. I've traveled to their homes. I talk to a few of them every day.
DISCON I was the best time, bar none, that I have ever had in my life. I remember Ray Sharpton saying near the end of DISCON that all of us were "friends for life." And, believe it or not, it's true.
There's a line from a song that says "I would walk across the desert with no shoes upon my feet, to share with you the last bite of bread I had to eat." That's exactly how I feel about my DISCON friends.
Please come join us. If you didn't believe before ... trust me ... by the time DISCON II is over .. you will believe in magic.
Believe it or not, I'm a very quiet person....not great with social skills...pretty much in my own shell. Online, I may be different....sometimes outrageous....and that's a part of me as well. But there's a comfort being in front of a computer screen. You can be anonymous. You're "safe."
Before DISCON I, I pretty much had myself convinced that I would live out my life by myself, with very few close friends. But something told me to register and go to Orlando.
The prospect of meeting a bunch of people I really didn't know absolutely terrified me. I told myself I would have nothing in common with them. I told myself I would spend all my time in my room alone.
Once I landed in Orlando, I got my rental car, checked in to the hotel, smoked many many cigarettes, and headed out to the Wilderness Lodge. I was so nervous. I remember looking up to the stars and saying, "Mom, ya gotta help me get through this." She had passed away a few years before.
I can say without reservation that my life changed that first night. I was welcomed with open arms. I've made friends from all over the world. I've traveled to their homes. I talk to a few of them every day.
DISCON I was the best time, bar none, that I have ever had in my life. I remember Ray Sharpton saying near the end of DISCON that all of us were "friends for life." And, believe it or not, it's true.
There's a line from a song that says "I would walk across the desert with no shoes upon my feet, to share with you the last bite of bread I had to eat." That's exactly how I feel about my DISCON friends.
Please come join us. If you didn't believe before ... trust me ... by the time DISCON II is over .. you will believe in magic.
(My open door)
Before he had awaken the next morning I had planned everything for us to go babysitter (my mom), airlines tickets, room(well we changed hotels)......and we are going...Can't wait to meet more great DISer's at DISCON II
I think you did. 
