Sorry I'm cheating but I was busy yesterday. Yesterday, I felt like I was at home.
People of my own heritage interested in the same thing I am.
Yes, not all of them were into art or soaps or whatever. But I have other outlets for my art and writing and education. All within one town.
I have been waiting 18 years for this.
For the first time in my life, I didn't have anything to kick against. I was going with the crowd. Maybe the issue all along has been that I was in the wrong crowd, not that I was inferior.
I need to get on with my work today but I'm a wee bit emotionally hungover.
In my hometown, I got everything. Death threats, name calling, pushed about physically. I'm still the target of gossip, malicious jokes, and name calling. Nobody wants me there. Then I left and felt like I was weird for liking different things to other people and not being able to explain my points of reference.
Now I'm home.
It's also a labour stronghold so politically I'm home as well.
Only thing is, it's making me wonder how aspie I am. But then I still have the light sensitivity, I still get more obsessed than other people etc. I've just found crowds I can blend into better now, without it feeling like masking.
PS aye and obviously 2-1 helped