Hello everyone

Hi there and thank you for the kind welcome! I am also finding out just how supportive and lovely people are here and it has brought me a lot of joy and happiness to know this is a space I can feel myself in and be accepted and understood while also connecting with others.

i am slo not great at too much social stuff but I have to agree chatting here is fun and I’m glad you are feeling that too! I’m open to chats anytime and I hope you’ll feel free to!

Hello - I’m sure you’ll find a very welcoming and supportive community here (that’s definitely been my experience). There’s loads of kindness and solidarity among the autistic people on here - I’ve found it so helpful and interesting. I’m not great with social stuff but I enjoy chatting to people in this online community - it’s super friendly. 

Welcome Lauren!

We don't bite, here! We know how you feel!

Ooh that sounds so lovely! A small quiet town is similar to mine in England! We get a lot of tourists too! 
I am sorry you feel a bit like an outsider I hope by talking here you feel less like an outsider, I know that is a hard feeling to feel from my own experience.

Hi lozza, it’s amazing that you’ve tried so many languages it’s not an easy skill to master! Your art looks amazing…. Do you draw too? 

Ich wohne in einer kleinen Stadt in Ostdeutschland, es gefällt mir sehr, es ist ruhig und gemütlich. Im Sommer haben wir ganz viele Touristen. Deutsch gefällt mir, aber war niemals mein Interesse. Sprachen lernen fällt mir leicht, aber trotzdem bin ich immer die fremde und nicht angepasste. 

Hi thank you so much for the kind welcome! It is always nice to meet a fellow art lover and enjoyer of nature documentaries! I also find them very relaxing and I love to see the world through them. Do you have any favourite styles in art? I like digital art and painting with acrylics and drawing with ye olde pencil.

I know what you mean with the making friends, it’s so confusing sometimes that I feel like I’m missing out on some secret code that everyone seems to be using! Feel free to have a chat whenever with me as I’m always keen to try to connect with others!

Hi Lozza welcome 

i read your post and thought for a moment I was reading my own. I hear you on never really fitting in, I’ve felt like that my whole life. I struggle to make friends, I think there is a secret telepathic dance that everyone else does but I don’t know how to when it comes to making friends. I think ASD has a massive impact on friendships I need to do more research instead of just thinking I’m not liked. I’m 36 was diagnosed 2 years ago, I work full time. I love art I used to do it a lot when I was younger less so now. I love the nature programmes especially David Attenborough they calm me. You learnt another language wow that’s impressive. I’ve always wanted to buy never found the time, life always gets in the way. I made this profile to hopefully make friends that understand me for me so I feel you there. 

I love that you like such a wide variety of book genres and video games!

I have read and played a few of those myself! Alice through the looking glass was fantastic and I loved assassins creed origins!

I like reading lots of genres - including sci-fi, fantasy, time travel, thrillers, comedies, and occasionally romantic or historical novels. As a child I enjoyed reading Black Beauty which was from the perspective of a horse, but I can't think of any other stories from an animal perspective that I've read. I also particularly enjoyed Alice through the looking glass and the Chronicles of Narnia when I was young.

My favourite games include Fallout 4, Sims 4, Assassins Creed Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla & Shadows, Hogwarts Legacy, and BioShock 1&2. I also have Chess and Cluedo on my XBox which I play occasionally.

Vielen Dank für das willkommen!

I am so excited to meet someone who has passed the B2 exam! And to have lived there for 6 years sounds absolutely amazing! 

I have to say I’m so surprised that I can read so much and understand everything said without looking it up so that is such a happy note for me! I just need to get more confident putting my response in Deutsch I find the reading van be easier than forming a sentence if that makes sense?

I would love to travel to Deutschland one day soon to explore some of the culture and see some of the beautiful places I have  seen via photos!  And the reason I love the language is actually because I loved leading it at high school way back when and decided about 5 years back to try to keep my mind active by learning a second language. I tired multiple including Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Dutch, French, Spanish, Romanian, Hungarian, Italian and I finally decided that whil I was super interested in all of the languages I tried nothing quite felt as right as German did. 

Thank you for being so kind in your welcome! 

I think the loneliness can seem like a very crushing feeling sometimes for people I know it is for me so I’m glad to talk with so many nice people here already. I feel very much like I have found a place filled with people to who are wonderful to chat to. 

I hope you too have found that here and I hope you’ll feel free to chat with me anytime! I am always happy to meet new people and learn about what others are interested in! 

Thank you so much for the kind welcome!

What do you enjoy reading if I may ask? I was always a huge fan of books like watership down, traveller and the animals of farthing wood. Just some animal perspectives I absolutely loved in fiction but I do enjoy books about mythology and tales from around the world too!

I love video games too! My favourites ae so mixed but I love cozy games, and the odd pvp games. I really enjoy survival and simulation games too. Things like Minecraft, stardew valley, animal crossing, pokemon, overwatch 2, medieval dynasty, genshin impact I have lists and lists I love. What do you enjoy playing?

That is so cool! I love to learn about the lifestyle and habits of animals too and I love getting to follow along with a family of animals too and I see how it all works within their dynamics. 
I love that you guy to learn such an amazing fact about the little hitchhiker! Sometimes it’s worth looking up even if it would be nice if the documentaries went into more depth.

Hi there! Thank you so much for the kind message I love tigers too! Ever since I was little I loved to draw animals and just loved the natural world.

Oh that one sounds really good! I love about the ocean because it’s so unlike the everyday we see. While all places in nature can be beautiful the ocean is just very magical. I do agree the trawling is absolutely horrendous to learn about and hopefully soon it will be stopped!

I recently watch wild Germany on a Disney plus I think it was and it was so relaxing and lovely!

Hi Lauren,
What a lovely introduction, thank you for sharing so openly. Like you, I’m also looking to connect with like-minded people to talk with and feel comfortable around. Loneliness is something I can relate to as well. I really hope you’ve found a place here where you can feel accepted and at ease.

Hi and welcome to the community. I'm a woman in my mid sixties and retired, and I enjoy reading and playing video games.

Herzlich willkommen! Deutsch ist nicht meine Muttersprache, aber ich wohne in Deutschland seit 6 Jahren und habe Deutsch B2 bestanden! Bist du schon mal nach Deutschland gefahren oder geflogen? Warum gefällt dir diese Sprache? 

Welcome to the forum, i wish you best here!

I was catching up with Kingdoms, the one following 4 different predator families. I enjoyed the close look at their behaviour, but got a bit frustrated that it didn't mention the other species on screen as I like to know all of that too. 

They did mention genets and I ended up researching them when I should have been going to bed. Like a large spotted genet was recorded on a camera trap in 2014 riding on the back of two different buffalo and a rhinoceros. The first recorded hitchhiking of the species. 

Welcome, Lauren! Wow, your profile picture is really good art, I love the use of colours and the tiger is really good, I love tigers!

Animal and wildlife documentaries are great fun to watch, I love to watch those too, I watched a really good one recently about wolves on Disney Plus, and the recent one about oceans by David Attenborough (though it was a little sad to learn about bottom trawling in the ocean), I think that one was called Ocean by David Attenborough. Any good ones you've seen recently?