How have other people reacted to your CMS?
Most people react positively to my CMS. I am very open about it and have often engaged in interesting conversations about it with my new friends in college. Most people are very curious about it and most don’t even know what it is. My friendships and relationships with others hasn’t changed based from their knowledge of my CMS.
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It varies. Some of my elementary school teachers reacted very negatively to it, my 3rd grade teacher in particular. Some of my middle school teachers made comments. None of my high school teachers cared. Other kids started thinking it was weird around mid-elementary school, and I got rude comments about it here and there until late middle school. By high school, no one really cared anymore (with rare exceptions), but people would still ask me what I was doing, and I’d explain it to them. I’d say the most common reaction people have when they notice it is either “What are you doing?”, “Are you okay?”, or something along those lines.
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My family didn’t understand it and would tell me to stop it. Some children at school would ask me what I was doing with my hands but very rarely. As an adult, my current second husband is the only person who has asked me about it. I was married for 11 years to my ex-husband who never ever mentioned it, if he ever saw it!! Needless to say, my current husband pays more attention to me :D He thinks it is fascinating, and asks to be let into what I am thinking about. Once or twice he even grabs my hands and squeezes them with me, so he can be a part of it!
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