Not recognizing Madonna: on growing up alien

[bookwoman72]

A couple of months ago, a friend played a Madonna song and asked me whether I recognized the singer. I did not. The voice sounded familiar, but I couldn't put a name to it. She accused me of having grown up under a rock or on another planet. "You DO have Asperger's syndrome!" she teased. (Never mind that lots of people on the spectrum are very

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[panacea1]

The only thing on your list I ever did was listening to the radio, but I was in junior high school before I worked out that we got more than two stations: "AM" - the local station out of Covington that played the "Swap Shop" program my dad liked, and "FM", which was easy listening.

I mean, I knew that other radio stations existed, I just assumed we didn't get them, the way our TV didn't get channel 2 (Baton Rouge) or channel 13 (Biloxi).