| | First, thank you for your replies. I will take all of your suggestions into consideration, and do my best to get my hands on the books that were also suggested.
Thus far, I have read the fiction works "Atlas Shrugged", "We The Living", and "Anthem". "Fountainhead" is on my computer in e-book form, and as soon as I finish the books I am currently reading, I will begin to read that one. The non-fiction works I have read related to Objectivism are "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand" by Leonard Peikoff, while the non-fiction works written by Ayn Rand herself which I have read are listed on my extended profile.
I am currently trying to find a way out of our current situation, and to be able to help my girlfriend to be able to enter the United States legally. Should I succeed, we succeed, then I am unsure as to how long I will be in the area of Mexico. Until that time, however, I am not opposed to searching for other English speaking Objectivists in my area in order to start a club. I would be rather happy to do so.
The experience had by Mr. Setzer is most unfortunate. Hopefully telling a little more of myself will somewhat help alleviate any concerns one might have about me-
I'm the oldest of four children by a minimum of 9 years. My mom was 17 when she became pregnant with me, but by the time she was 21 she had married my adoptive father. They were together until after I had become an adult and moved out. My mother is a registered nurse completing her masters, and teaching at a College. My adoptive father worked for Intel and made six figures, so I come from an upper middle class family with no significant traumas to speak of. The worst that could be said is that they were both very busy, and I helped quite a bit in raising my siblings. At the time I considered this unfair, but being older now I am extremely grateful as I have an incredibly close relationship with my siblings.
I did terribly in school, yet was tested with an IQ of 162. This caused my parents to seek a psychiatrist and psychologist who diagnosed me with ADD and explored (but never confirmed) Asperger's Syndrome. I don't have a problem empathizing, but I am quite socially ackward and take the spoken word literally. While I can detect metaphors or sarcasm in writing, it's much more difficult for me to determine when someone is kidding or being literal when they're talking out loud. I graduated High School, and scored highly enough on the SAT to get into ASU where I studied music with an opera focus for a very short time.
I've bounced back and forth between jobs, mostly for personal reasons (sick relatives, finding a better paying job etc), rather the job related reasons (never been fired). Thus far I've been a Para-Optometric Technician, Training Supervisor for the over-night logistics flow team at a Target store, Replenishment Allocations Assistant for Macy's HQ during the Robinson's May take-over, Human Resources Interviewer for Six Flags, and Production Assistant for Bandai Entertainment Incorporated. None of these jobs have been something I deeply loved, but I do feel rather proud of having gotten the jobs without a college degree.
I have no criminal record of which I am aware, maybe a ticket here and there for being in the middle of a left turn when the arrow turned red. I don't drink, and am an ex-smoker. I tried pot once in my first year of college, but haven't done anything like that since. I have Crohn's which can sometimes make me anemic, which can sometimes make me grumpy, but I like to think that being grumpy sometimes doesn't make me bad person.
Bottom line, you'll never get a phone call because I committed a heinous crime. That's a good thing right?
(Edited by Nicole Aranzábal on 1/07, 7:40pm)
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