A reluctant introduction

Hi

I have just read your post and felt like I had to sign up to say I completely relate to this! My husband wanted me to start looking at online communities because he thought I would benefit from seeing that I am not alone in how I am feeling and I’m starting to think he was right :) I was diagnosed in 2016 and have had the same feeling of not wanting to take resources from other people and ended up really isolating myself. I really wanted to join a support group to try and make friends but I was too worried about not not fitting in.

Anyway I suppose I just wanted to say thank you because seeing your post helped me feel a bit better about moving forward.

In that case, this response alone reassures me it was worth it (and you're welcome). I suppose it's the idea behind a community, and I've no doubt that if we hang around enough we'll find other people with whom we can find common ground and like-mindedness.

I echo what moon suggests, though, that you change your profile name to something a little easier to remember/distinguish. I imagine it's easier for everyone on here to get to know you that way. The NAS numbers are easily mistaken, I feel.

I hate imagining names for myself. I think I have issues with names in general.. All I did was look at my NAS number and think what does this remind me of. It looked like a Star Trek starship registry number so I looked up the closest one to my number, which was the Bellerophon. It helped that there was a coincidence in that I'd used that same ship/name in a TTRPG session before too, so it felt like a nice coincidence.

The vast majority of models I have are Star Trek starships, and almost all of those are Eaglemoss/Hero Collector models, so they come as single pieces (well, single ship, plus two-piece stand) .. while I don't have an issue with assembling models, I dont find I have the time or the focused attention needed for assembly. So buying premade models suits me. This week I've ordered a number more as they had a sale on  I assume given your poor fine motor control perhaps models in general are something you stay away from them, but Eaglemoss are okay if you were interested in anything not requiring construction. Must be said though, that more of their models arrive with faults than I'd like.. even as high as 1 in 5. I tend to only buy them on sale these days, especially has they've become drastically more expensive in recent years.

Anyway, on the ships; I respect all of these choices. Most of them classics of course. I am perhaps not as much of a fan of the Odyssey class, but I can very much understand why people think highly of it; I think it is something about the curve of the neck, through the pylons and the shape of the nacelles.. but I'd bet money that also one of the things people love about it; entirely a subjective thing on my part. What I do like, though, is the legacy of fan-made ships in Star Trek (the Titan and Aventine come to mind also), as I was always an avid designer of spaceships especially in my youth. Sometimes I regret that I stopped.

One of my favourites (perhaps my absolute favourite until recently) was the Oberth Class.

Which I mention because there are two things that connect our first favourites, and that is that their original model appearances were both in the same movie, and they have both been inconsistently sized throughout various incarnations of trek (I assume that is perhaps why you mention the name B'rel, the be specific as to the version). I adore the Oberth's quirky differences to the other Starfleet ships, as well as it's position as a science-focused vessel, small, and therefore automatically an underdog of sorts.

The vast majority of models I have are Star Trek starships, and almost all of those are Eaglemoss/Hero Collector models, so they come as single pieces (well, single ship, plus two-piece stand) .. while I don't have an issue with assembling models, I dont find I have the time or the focused attention needed for assembly. So buying premade models suits me. This week I've ordered a number more as they had a sale on  I assume given your poor fine motor control perhaps models in general are something you stay away from them, but Eaglemoss are okay if you were interested in anything not requiring construction. Must be said though, that more of their models arrive with faults than I'd like.. even as high as 1 in 5. I tend to only buy them on sale these days, especially has they've become drastically more expensive in recent years.

Anyway, on the ships; I respect all of these choices. Most of them classics of course. I am perhaps not as much of a fan of the Odyssey class, but I can very much understand why people think highly of it; I think it is something about the curve of the neck, through the pylons and the shape of the nacelles.. but I'd bet money that also one of the things people love about it; entirely a subjective thing on my part. What I do like, though, is the legacy of fan-made ships in Star Trek (the Titan and Aventine come to mind also), as I was always an avid designer of spaceships especially in my youth. Sometimes I regret that I stopped.

One of my favourites (perhaps my absolute favourite until recently) was the Oberth Class.

Which I mention because there are two things that connect our first favourites, and that is that their original model appearances were both in the same movie, and they have both been inconsistently sized throughout various incarnations of trek (I assume that is perhaps why you mention the name B'rel, the be specific as to the version). I adore the Oberth's quirky differences to the other Starfleet ships, as well as it's position as a science-focused vessel, small, and therefore automatically an underdog of sorts.