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Wow, oldddddd biography. Here's the new one! I'm Alice Ariella, but most people on Gaia call me Misaki or some derivative of it. I was born on 11/11/1993, making me 17 presently, and I've lived in the Australian countryside all my life. Currently, I do university long distance. I'm in computer science. I want to do web development in the future, yeah!!
On Gaia, I can be found in the GCD, zOMG! forums, and zOMG! itself. I joined in 2005 and I've had this as my main for a long time (I locked myself out of my original main and didn't get it back for a long time).
I used to be a pretty depressed person, but I like to count my blessings, and I'm fairly happy now. I have a lot of medical problems; I have mobility problems, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety issues, diabetes, I'm half-blind, and was recently left half-deaf by a brain tumour, but they cut the tumour out and I'm now a proud survivor of having my brain stem painfully squished by a mass literally the size of a golfball. I know I'm lucky to be alive and I'm enjoying it. Even if I can't do everything everyone else can, I have my own unique abilities. I am a firm believer that people should be judged by what they can do (their ability), not what they cannot do (their disabilities). tl;dr: Don't feel sorry for me, I'm happy and learning how to get over my obstacles in life. I prefer to think of myself as an example of proof you can overcome limitations and still be a happy individual. To me, every day is Thanksgiving (minus the turkey and family feuds).
My attitude towards people can be summed up as 'live and let live'. Specifically, I might disagree with you, but I respect your right to have your opinion, even if I do not respect your opinion. I believe discourse is necessary and if you offer your opinion up in argument, I will attempt to argue it; people who approach discourse with open minds can have their minds changed, so I don't think it's pointless. But personal attacks in an argument are frivolous and unnecessary. What does this have to do with live and let live? If you don't offer your opinion, I won't try to change it. People have the right to think what they like; it is when they engage in argument that they place their opinions up for evaluation. Politically, I emphasise personal freedoms and equality. I do not believe the government should interfere in half as many things as it does. I believe things that I may personally disagree with should be legalised because I believe that I have the right to make the choice for myself alone and it is not my place to interfere with other people's lives. Again, this comes down to live and let live. In an ideal society, people would have maximum individual freedom, short of infringing on other people's intrinsic rights. You could say this is a libertarian point of view, but I'm hesitant to label my ideology, because despite having being called it a million times, I'm still trying to iron out my economic policy.
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You are really a strong and courageous person. Congrats on getting a wish!
Nice, computer science then web dev. 3nodding I'm a do web dev then maybe computer science. xd