Published on 12, July, 2020
I joined here around 5 months ago.
Since that time it's come to mean different things to me.
I think sharing experiences is invaluable but equally invaluable is the honesty I find here.
It's a place where we can talk about shared experience /our emotions/difficulties in a way that's impossible in the 'real' world - or at least if we speak about it there, it's unlikely to be understood.
It's a place to connect in a world where we often find connecting difficult.
I've received some PMs recently that have made me focus more on how very important this community can be to us as individuals.
Luna RIP called this her 'forum family'.
As a person who doesn't seek friendship (?or thinks she doesn't?), some surprising and valuable friendships have evolved from here for me.
How about you?
Honestly this place has saved my life and got me through so many things that I dont know how I would have got through otherwise.
It is just a place where I belong and can be me, a place full of people like me who "get it" and who actually see the world the way I do and most of all whose brains work like mine. It has made me feel I am not alone. Before I came here I felt like I was the only person in the world whose brain worked the way it does and who saw the world the way I do, now I know there are many of us!
It is the place I run to after a bad day or a day when I feel overwhelmed and it is so comforting to know that whatever I am going through many of you have been here too