Guess I have been out of country and out of touch too, too long. Now, into my fourth year of self-imposed-exile from A United States part of North America [AUSPONA], I am truly knowing some angst over my pending return. I am sure I will, at times, find myself dumbstruck by some of the lunatic Republican idiots I will encounter when I get back. I believe a crucible awaits me back home. Therefore I will be seeking here, on MINDSAY, some help in making my perceived difficult re-immersion back into a western "civilized" society and environment.
In 1992 I experienced debilitating cultural shock when I returned home after only one year of teaching English in the Manchuria region of Northeast China.
Indeed a great depression overtook me and I lived for a year in one of my older brother's basement before I received psychological help. Prior to that intervention I had not been diagnosed with clinical depression.
Here, now, for the most part, being removed from the oppressiveness of the lunatic neoconservative-retrograde-racist-Republican regime, here, now I can function fully for the most part most of the time.
Truly, I am fearful of my return to my beloved country, AUSPONA, as I call it here in my effort to educate my students that The USA does not equate to America and America does not equal The USA.
Yes, I am fearful of my return to my beloved homeland.
Sincerely in pursuit of happiness and freedom from insane fudking tyranny of whatever political strip in AUSPONA,
Mr. David Tecumseh Schmidt, MSW '82 University of Michigan Tecumseh High School '59
