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So glad I found you!

I hope you find validation and connections here. It can be more than bewildering to be diagnosed so late in life. I say that for I did not receive an official diagnosis until my forties. I always knew I was different from everyone else, earning the semi-epithet of 'you're weird', or the similar 'you're strange'. Be that as it may be to others, I never really felt that way, although people's inability to handle my affect led to some not so enjoyable confrontations.

Anyway, I survived all of that, and now I am more or less comfortable in most environments, even when I know few of the people I might encounter. That is a complete turn around from my childhood, so I like to think that proves that with age and experience comes a respite from inner turmoil.

May you find comfort here as well.
 
Welcome here!

I was about your age when I was diagnosed. Now I'm 64.
This forum has been a refuge and place of learning. Hope you find it the same for you.
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Yup... me too.
 
Deborah Rose Elaine Dorn said:
What tree is this, that has come to greet me? #thankyou ... aparently, trees can send messages ...
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Ok, I am often accused of being too literal and, yes, here I go again being too literal.
But, yes, trees do, in fact, "talk". Suzanne Simard has studied and proven how they communicate and interact with their community of forest life. Here is her TED Talk on her research. She has also published a very detailed book on her research titled "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest". It turns out that a forest is not just a bunch of trees. It's an organism of intermingled trees, brush, grasses, fungi, etc. as its organs. Fascinating book!
 
Ken said:
Ok, I am often accused of being too literal and, yes, here I go again being too literal.
But, yes, trees do, in fact, "talk". Suzanne Simard has studied and proven how they communicate and interact with their community of forest life. Here is her TED Talk on her research. She has also published a very detailed book on her research titled "Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest". It turns out that a forest is not just a bunch of trees. It's an organism of intermingled trees, brush, grasses, fungi, etc. as its organs. Fascinating book!
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yes, that is what I have been told ... well, that is a bit more than I was told but I have felt this affinity with trees and sometimes a certain tree will just absolutely stop me in my tracks, I can feel so much energy from them ... I will definitely have a look at the Ted Talk #tysm :D
 
Richelle-H said:
I hope you find validation and connections here. It can be more than bewildering to be diagnosed so late in life. I say that for I did not receive an official diagnosis until my forties. I always knew I was different from everyone else, earning the semi-epithet of 'you're weird', or the similar 'you're strange'. Be that as it may be to others, I never really felt that way, although people's inability to handle my affect led to some not so enjoyable confrontations.

Anyway, I survived all of that, and now I am more or less comfortable in most environments, even when I know few of the people I might encounter. That is a complete turn around from my childhood, so I like to think that proves that with age and experience comes a respite from inner turmoil.

May you find comfort here as well.
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Thanks so much, some comfort would be well appreciated.
 
Deborah Rose Elaine Dorn said:
yes, that is what I have been told ... well, that is a bit more than I was told but I have felt this affinity with trees and sometimes a certain tree will just absolutely stop me in my tracks, I can feel so much energy from them ... I will definitely have a look at the Ted Talk #tysm :D
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My most enjoyable, best ever vacation was a visit to the Sequoia National Forest. We spent four days hiking through the forest. It was absolute heaven. So serene and calm among such gentle giants. Magical. I loved to "listen" to the trees. The have such incredible wisdom. Many of them have witnessed three thousand years of planet Earth. Imagine what they could tell us if we were a mind to listen.

I think it is also clear that they are not so mindless as humanity thinks they are. It was pointed out that Sequoia trees have very shallow roots, so much so that the massive, skyscraper high trunk is kept upright by a balancing act. If the tree starts to tilt in any direction, due to shifting soil, or whatever, the tree will drop giant limbs off the tilted side and grow new ones on the other side to bring it back to level. I actually witnessed a dropped limb. It was totally astonishing. The dropped limb was so huge it would make a giant tree all by itself.
Ok, yes, I guess you can call me a tree hugger. :)
 
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