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Hi! I am not really new but I have not been here for years. I turned 40 this year and I live in Sweden. I love my cats ( and other cats ). Another great love are corvids, I love their beauty, intelligence and playfulness. This year has not been great and it keeps getting worse. It has made me think more about my past and also my diagnosis. I believe I was 17 when I got it and I had great difficulties accepting it. Things were different back then. I enjoy talking to people from different countries and learning a bit about different cultures. I think that it is nice to learn new things. I like painting /drawing, but it has always been a sporadic hobby, but I have never lost interest in it. I am terrible at making friends IRL, always easier online. I am not sure why I have returned, maybe seeking some self acceptance and understanding. If nothing else I can practice my English...So hello

Welcome back to WP!

Welcome back!

Personally I find connecting with other people on the spectrum can be extremely validating...it can be very lonely and stressful trying to navigate the neurotypical world alone. I value my autistic friends more than anything. I hope you can find something similar here, or whatever you feel might be appropriate for yourself.

yes, here we don't feel as alone. Many others will understand and can give insights, advice, comfort, input. Glad you are with us. ( I love cats, horses, corvids and turtles, and love to draw too)

Welcome! Glad you are here.

And I am also a cat person. Of course, that seems wise...cats appear to believe they are the superior beings and it seems wise to treat them accordingly, since they are very likely right!

Welcome back to Wrong Planet!

Welcome back to Wrong Planet. You talked about your love of corvids. I didn't know what that was so I looked it up. A corvid is any of the stout-billed passerine birds in the family Corvidae. Yes it has been a littly difficult during the past couple years when COVID struck and people just seemed to go crazy.

Hi! Another fan of cats and corvids here, but owls too.

My favourite corvid is Corvus corax, the Raven. I see a lot of the cheeky fellas round here. One in particular sits atop a pine tree, the tallest in the vicinity. My wife calls him 'The General'.

They remind me of Huginn and Muninn, and in that respect they have a particular significance to being autistic.

Huginn and Muninn
fljúga hverjan dag
jörmungrund yfir.
óumz ek of Hugin
at hann aptr né komit,
þó sjámk meirr um Munin.

We used to have a jackdaw in the house for a while when I was a child, as he hurt his wing after being grabbed by a cat, and he came to us for help. He got better and he would visit every day! Then he found a wife and had little ones in a nest on a chimney of a house opposite, so as he was busy we did not see him so much. Before that we would call him and he would come!
Then one day about a year or two later he came back to us, as he was not well. He had caught pnemonia. We put him in the little porch where he stayed before, which he liked,but sadly a few days later he died.