The Truth. . . Revealed in a new light.

Reply #1 July 4, 2004 9:26 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I don't think anyone cares how old you are. Adopting personas online is nothing new (heh, just look at Sir Peter). There are people of all age groups here (well, of reasonable age groups... no toddlers that I know of), and I think all of their input is informative and useful.

I'm 34. My best friend is 21 (but he's really mature for his age, and I'm really immature). I have friends ranging from that, 21, to mid 40's. I value all of them. Exposure to people of different generations is an extremely valuable experience.

I have a hard time remembering what it was like to be 15. Your writing can help me keep that perspective in mind, so that when I am forming opinions I do not neglect you and yours. At the same time, I hope, you can learn from the wealth of experience (and intellect) represented on JoeUser.

Reply #2 July 4, 2004 9:26 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

ashlee,

Don't worry about it. Most of us had it pretty much figured out anyway. Keep writing. It is always refreshing to have new insight and ideas, and this may help you hone your skills for later.

Don't worry about the judgement of others, just do what you do.

God Bless,

Gideon MacLeish

Reply #3 July 4, 2004 9:28 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Let me get a few things off my chest. I am not who I say I am. I am Ashlee, but not the Ashlee I have said I am. I am 15. . . not 24. I don't have a boyfriend and I have no want for one. I just like to write. I feel terrible because of how I deceived all of you. I probably won't write at all now. I don't want to upset anyone by continuing to write. If you would like me to keep writing, I will. I am sorry though. I just felt the need to get it out that I am 15. thanks.

I think it's good that you've finally come clean about this, Ashlee...it can be a dangerous thing to pretend to be someone you aren't. I do think you have a great writing talent....and I'd like to hear more from you....but only if it's about the REAL you---or if you're writing fiction, you let us KNOW that it's fiction. Hang in there....you've shown great courage in being honest here!!!

Reply #4 July 4, 2004 9:54 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Thanks for understanding.

I do think you have a great writing talent....and I'd like to hear more from you....but only if it's about the REAL you---or if you're writing fiction, you let us KNOW that it's fiction. Hang in there....you've shown great courage in being honest here!!!

I have no idea why I felt the need to come clean. I cried myself to sleep, because it hit me that you all didn't know me as me. . .

Reply #5 July 4, 2004 10:19 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

. . . So i'll explain myself. . .

My name is Ashlee, (you already knew that)
I'm 15. I am in 10th grade, but I'm doing 11th grade work. My life sucks right now, my parents are going through a rough time, and at the moment i'm alone. Its just me, my cd player and also my computer. I'm being pushed down because I write. People don't read my writing because i'm 15. People around here don't look at my opinion because i'm 15. They look at me as being a child, without a point of view. I can think but not speak basically. . . anyways, I still feel like I'm an awful person because of all this. I should have come out in the beginning and been honest the whole time.

BTW

Most of us had it pretty much figured out anyway

How?!?

Ashlee

Reply #6 July 4, 2004 10:28 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I can think but not speak basically. . . anyways, I still feel like I'm an awful person because of all this. I should have come out in the beginning and been honest the whole time.

You can speak here. And don't worry about this. You are not an awful person! the very fact that you felt the need to reveal the truth prooves that. Heh, if the worst thing I ever did was lie about my age, well... I'm not sure what would happen... but the point is a lot of us have done a lot worse.

Reply #7 July 4, 2004 10:56 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Heh, if the worst thing I ever did was lie about my age, well... I'm not sure what would happen... but the point is a lot of us have done a lot worse.

Well, to be honest, lying about my age is not the worst thing I've done. I'd rather not get into the details over the internet. But let's just say, I'm no goodie-two-shoes. I'm 15 and I've already flushed my life down the toilet. Anyways, thanks for making me feel better.

Ashlee

Reply #8 July 5, 2004 12:03 AM from JoeUser Forums Top

Heh, if the worst thing I ever did was lie about my age, well... I'm not sure what would happen... but the point is a lot of us have done a lot worse.

Admitting you fibbed shows character that most adults lack. You have a long way to go before you break the JoeU Lying Record (Lightweight Division) currently held by BakerStreet (5 lies in 30 words!), so don't sweat it.

Reply #9 July 5, 2004 1:05 AM from JoeUser Forums Top

Hey Ashlee...it's cool.  At least you can admit you had a persona.

So, welcome, Ashlee-The-Redeemed!

Reply #10 July 5, 2004 2:42 AM from JoeUser Forums Top

Honesty is a big thing.

Admitting that you havent been is a bigger thing.

Good on you and keep writing cause it helps. On JU there are many beautiful people who may be able to help you with whatever your going through and Im sure they will come out and let you know!

Take strength in your writing.. and remember to be honest to your heart.

Reply #11 July 5, 2004 2:57 AM from JoeUser Forums Top

I am a 64 year old toothless hag who lives on gum drop lane with a gingerbread man for a servent

No one cars Ashlee... As Pheonixboi said, admiting this was a huge step... you didn't ened to, and your conscience worked it all out for yourself! As Sir Peter would say... jolly good show old chap

BAM!!!

Reply #12 July 5, 2004 2:57 AM from JoeUser Forums Top

I am a 64 year old toothless hag who lives on gum drop lane with a gingerbread man for a servent

No one cares Ashlee... As Pheonixboi said, admiting this was a huge step... you didn't ened to, and your conscience worked it all out for yourself! As Sir Peter would say... jolly good show old chap

BAM!!!

Reply #13 July 5, 2004 2:58 AM from JoeUser Forums Top

Whoops... my true identity as the inexperienced ratarded double poster has been exposed!!!

hehe... sorry

BAM!!!

Reply #14 July 5, 2004 10:46 AM from JoeUser Forums Top

Thanks, You all made me feel so much better.

Reply #15 July 12, 2004 9:51 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

omg yay, someone else who's 15!!!! yeewww...

i was beginning to womder if anyone my age would show up...

so... a slight bit about me... im 15 (hmm think i might have said that... OH WELL), live in australia, blah blah blah... if you wanna know anything more specific etc etc, just ask!

hmm dunno how you could ask... but there'd have to be a way, right??? anyways....

l8erz..
claire

Reply #16 July 12, 2004 10:06 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Whoops... my true identity as the inexperienced ratarded double poster has been exposed!!!

Is that how you hi-jack threads? You just multi-post 'til everyone else gives up?

Reply #17 July 12, 2004 10:14 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

You know, that is pretty cool that you told us this, but I still think that Inside Out is a great song.

So, you all believe I'm who I say I am, right? Brandon Costlow... if not, you have some trust issues. lol

Capt. over and out!

Reply #18 July 14, 2004 8:23 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

*hugs Captain and CS*

You both make me smile.. A LOT!

Ashlee *sighs* I need a life...

Reply #19 July 14, 2004 8:39 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

*hugs CS*

We make people smile, it must just a thing us special people do...

Capt. over and out!

Reply #20 July 14, 2004 8:53 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

You realize I'm a big macho man... I just don't go around hugging people! I have an image to uphold.

Reply #21 July 14, 2004 9:07 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I understand, dude. I don't know, I'm just to much of a sissy boy I guess. I'm just kinda used to the whole hugging scene. Stupid sisters made me this way!!! AHHHH!

Capt. over and out!

P.S.~ I won't tell anyone about this... lol

Reply #22 July 16, 2004 3:15 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Hey, it's cool, Ashlee. I'm just curious, that whole Tucker thing was fiction, then, right? Like I assumed it was. And did you really ever change your name?

Most of us had it pretty much figured out anyway

Ditto! It's a six and common sense thing!

~Sarah

Reply #23 July 20, 2004 10:16 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

How?!?

I didn't even know that you were saying that you were 24. I just assumed that you were a teenager. It is pretty easy to distinguish between the writings of a 40 year old and that of a teenager. So I think that most of us don't feel deceived because most of us thought you were your true age.

Reply #24 July 22, 2004 10:40 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I didn't even know that you were saying that you were 24. I just assumed that you were a teenager. It is pretty easy to distinguish between the writings of a 40 year old and that of a teenager. So I think that most of us don't feel deceived because most of us thought you were your true age.

I think you may have missed most of the articles written when she was supposedly a 24 yr old who had left home very young, changed her name, and never seen her family again. There was a story about her best friend, a male, who was getting married, but she realized she loved him, and didn't want him to marry the girl....so on the day of the wedding, she told him how she felt, he dumped the other girl right before the ceremony, and the jilted girl was supposedly just fine with the whole thing. That was when people began to get suspicious....and then, in an article talking about how she had left her family, she got comments from someone who, she later claimed, was her long lost younger sister....so she made a trip home to see her family and make things up with them, only to discover her room was just as she had left it.....and on, and on, and on.....

The problem she has, when she creates these lives, is that she goes too far into the melodramatic as to make them TOTALLY unbelievable, IMO.

Reply #25 July 23, 2004 1:04 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I haven't read your blog a lot until recently, but it's going under my favorites (that I now know how to edit ).

I know as much as I try to sound sophisticated and blog like an adult, I just sound lke a teenager trying to do just that. It's all good, I don't let it get to me. You haven't done anything to me that's deceptive or anything like that, so you're still a clean blogger in my book