I think I feel more displaced on the outside and not the inside. I'd like to think I'm fairly sure of myself and know where I belong/need to be. The outside is the part that isn't sure about being here, so I hide. Maybe that is the inside though . ..

So we're at a disadvantage that we've never spoken and may never meet, but the only label that I would put on you is friend. Plain and simple you are just curefreak. You are what you are and there are no expectations about you or what you do or might do or anything else. You just are.

I agree that LJ has the advantage of non-judging. I think because everything is mostly words that in reading you actually see more than what the spoken words could relate. Are we better off hiding behind the computer screen? Maybe so. We've got avatars, icons, and user names to hide behind here. We get to relax behind the computer screen because no one will find out that we are or are not what we say we are. In real life, we slap on the clothes, the makeup, the hairstyle, the job, etc. and hide behind an image that we want everyone to believe is real. We spend most of our time hoping that we won't get caught in our real skin.