May I suggest gently that even were we to meet face to face, you wouldn't necessarily know my personal truth any more than I would know yours. Part of the joy of the internet is the fact that we become released from the boundaries of our respective flesh cages so that we get to know each other without being restricted by the prejudices caused by appearance. This is what is really important about me (or anyone else)...that internal human that people in my day to day life never meet, will never know exists. Here I have pretenses to being an artist. Out there, in reality, I'm a stodgy numbers cruncher. Both are me...but which is more important, which reflects my essence, which is closer to what I wish I could be, what I would be if allowed to exist beyound a physcial stereotype? I would say that the people on this forum, in some ways, know me the best of anyone.

I'm not sure I would pass the test.