For better or worse. Small scale or large. Personal or shared. What is an event you’ve experienced that changed the way you act, live, feel, etc. It could be short-term or long. Share what you feel comfortable with. Triumphs and tragedies alike.

  • Melatonin
    100·
    3 months ago3 months ago

    Being accepted into a friend group in Junior High (middle school).

    I had some kind of neuro-divergence, but undiagnosed since it was the 1960s. No friends, and I couldn’t understand the world; I thought there was some “secret manual” that everyone got except me, telling them how social interactions worked.

    Then a band of misfits took me in. There were about 8-10 of them, and some special guest friends that made appearances from time to time. Male and female. All kinds of different people, popular and unpopular. And they accepted me. Weird me. Turned my life completely around.

    • quinacridone
      30·
      3 months ago

      That’s really lovely! Are you still friends or in contact with them today?

      I was taken under the wing of a motherly school friend after I was ostracized and bullied by previous ‘friend’ group…I got my diagnosis 30+ years later

      • Melatonin
        30·
        3 months ago

        I’m still in contact with one of them, the one I was closest to.

        • cashmaggotOP
          20·
          3 months ago

          Hey, then at least you’ve got everything you need. I have had some friends reach out recently and we’ve walked down memory lane. Consider reaching out to them and seeing what all they’re up to. People love hearing from people they love but have lost touch with. At least in my experience.