Myths and Folklore Blog

Now that we are over halfway through the semester, I thought I should make another introduction. I have gotten quite a lot of comments on my original introduction , so a lot of you will need something new to comment on if you read another one of my stories. That, and I noticed that most of my introduction was not an introduction to myself, but to my pets. Blame it on my small town upbringing; you learn to keep a lot of things to yourself in places like that, if you know what's good for you.  First, something familiar to those of you who read my first introduction - my prosopagnosia (or face-blindness). A lot of comments expressed interest in that, so I'll talk about it more. It is something I was born with, which I learned in cognitive psychology, is uncommon for prosopagnosia. I did not realize I was abnormal until my first psychology class, where I could not see an optical illusion that relied on facial recognition. See, contrary to most artistic interpretations (and the name...

Update : I have a part two , in case anybody who has commented before would like a new introduction post to comment on. Hello, my name is Arthur. Well, that is only half-true. Arthur is my pseudonym, but it is a pseudonym that I use quite often. I go by Arthur in most online mediums, and it is the name I give myself when I play video games (or choose-your-own-adventure games, when the option to pick a name is available). There is a certain separation of selves when I do this. Think of it like Jekyll and Hyde, but a book-accurate version. You see, Hyde is not a separate personality to Jekyll, just a different face that Jekyll uses to express a hidden aspect of himself. Arthur is confident and self-assured, "Richard" (to refer to my in-person self) is not. This puts me in a bit of a predicament: how to introduce myself while keeping the two as separate as I can. It is inevitable that Arthur and Richard will bleed into each other in this blog, I'm afraid, so I will continue ...