My name is Stephanie, but that really doesn't tell you much, does it? I've gone by the screen names of Tenebra, Freya, and Shaharazad at various points since I discovered the Internet, and currently use variations of Prysm, Prysmcat, Prysma, or prysma-kitteh, which might tell you a little more, but not much.

Well, if you met me, you'd see a woman in her thirties, wearing glasses, average height and running a tad towards overweight, with shoulder-length brown hair that perpetually escapes any pony-tail or clip I try in order to keep it out of my eyes. I'm not particularly striking in any way.

Odds are, especially if I'm in a crowd or an unfamiliar situation, you might notice that I seem uncomfortable and anxious, and that I seem to be trying my best to be invisible or at least as inoffensive as humanly possible. You'd be right on all of the above. A social animal I definitely am not.

If I get the sense that you might be friendly, though, and that we might have some common ground, it's not all that difficult to get me talking. Depending on the situation, I might tell you about any one aspect of myself, or maybe two or three - my job and my household, say, and maybe just a little about my writing.

That, of course, is the side of me that most of the world sees every day.
It's real, but it's only one small part of the spectrum....

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