I had an outdoor wedding in July in Florida (but not on a beach or I would have gone barefoot or sandals) and it rained every day that week except for my day. Definitely wouldn't have wanted to risk going barefoot!

I just wore plain white flats. *shrug*

Looks like it's $91 now, ugh. I took mine between 2004-2008. Florida pays school districts on the basis of each AP test passed and the money goes to paying for all of the tests and giving teachers whose students pass in good numbers bonuses.

I feel lucky that in my state we don't have to pay to take the AP tests. I had forgotten that that was a thing elsewhere. :(

I took:

I took Calc AB as a senior because we didn't have BC, and I did well, but I decided to take Calc 1 in college anyway. I think taking Calc AB can help in that it gives you exposure to the ideas, but I'm glad I took calc I anyway because it helped me build a solid foundation. It seemed too easy at the time, but all the…

I was valedictorian (and no, I didn't take easy classes unless it was a requirement. I took 12 AP courses and took 2 math and 2 science courses senior year). Much to my relief, they had people audition to speak instead, and I didn't apply because I knew I'd be terrible at it.

I graduated with 12 APs (9 of them 5's- and I had to take some of them online to get enough of them into my schedule. I remember being really upset that the only section of AP Physics and the only section of AP Calculus were offered at the same time so no one could take both). I went to a pretty typical public school…

Invader Zim was out when I was in middle school and it was my obsession for those three years (until it had been cancelled for awhile and Phantom of the Opera in all its forms became my new obsession) It's what got me through those years of bullying, because I could relate to Dib (sometimes Gaz and Zim too in certain…

It was my dad's favorite show as a kid, so we watched all of it growing up, as well as Star Trek (whatever new ones came out, so Voyager when I was in elementary school and Enterprise in middle school, as well as having been introduced to the original series and TNG along the way). I still have a lot of love for it…

For mine (as bride) this is what went down:

Yeah, I know cycles affect libido. I have a sex drive about 2-3 days a month and none the rest of the time.
I'm definitely open to growing and changing. Or else pushing to go out with him when I had identified as asexual for years wouldn't have happened, and I wouldn't have been able to shift my identification from…

I think that's actually really insightful, the feeling of normative vs non-normative. I have some of my poetry from my high school days and the feeling that I was so alienated I wasn't even sure I was really a human being shines clear through.

I was never able to perform or realize that there was even a script we were…

Every celebrity I picked to crush over they were just like "ewww he's not hot at all". Hence it not being convincing. Or maybe because I usually went with characters I like, regardless of if they were even human, which led to awkwardness like "...but he's a robot"

Yeah I'm getting that that part is fairly typical for…

I mean that part makes sense, for being part of that community, especially if there's an in-person one locally. Certainly it was helpful to me online, especially in high school when I had few friends I was allowed to see outside of school. Maybe I just don't feel as much of a need to describe it at length to friends…

I do find it odd to "come out" as a straight demisexual if you were already dating men and that's not changing. I'm openly demisexual (though it's not something I talk about unless the subject comes up somehow) but primarily because I was really openly asexual before and had never dated anyone prior to that, so it did…

I think I get your point better now, and some things are clearing up for me. I think where I differed when I was younger might be that I never wanted to have a boyfriend, hold hands, etc.- and that was weird and what I felt a need to fake in elementary school but gave up on faking in middle school. When I met my…

Hmm. I wasn't aware everyone else was just faking it and not actually wanting to do what they were doing around the same time I still identified as asexual. And I don't want to generalize it was 100% everyone faking it either because I'm inclined now to think this is largely on a bell curve. It definitely isn't…

If it were treated as normal by people instead of as weird, and if that were actually expressed to girls that that's standard, maybe it wouldn't need it and it would just be normal. enthusiasticdissent was saying that most girls really just pretend to like boys. So is sexuality really only just "fake it until you make…

I can see that, if everyone else was faking crushes too when I assumed they were real. It hadn't really occurred to me that everything everyone was expressing was all an act, all just fake. But then is anything people do even real? Maybe the benefit for me in finding that label was I could talk to people who weren't…

Yeah, wasn't so much solely reacting to what you said. And being thought of as a shade of normal is whole lot better and closer to the truth than when I started discussions on forums I hung out on say, 9-10 yrs ago about asexuality when I identified as asexual- back then broken was certainly the refrain, as it has…