who here on WP has a sense of purpose in life?

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What gives me a sense of purpose is finding ways to make the world a better place for myself and at least some other people. Sometimes this has meant political activism. Sometimes this has meant providing some service (e.g. creating a website or leading meetings of some in-person group) pertaining to whatever oddball subculture I happened to be involved in at the time.

Lately I've been reading up on both the autistic community and the larger autism community (autistics plus the mostly-NT parents/families/partners/etc. groups plus professionals) and thinking a lot about what sorts of things I could possibly do to help build the autistic community. More about this later, in some other thread.

^^^^my inept attempts at "building up the autistic community" was like trying to herd cats. i trust that you are more talented at this than i am.

Since further discussion about building up the autistic community would probably be off-topic for this thread, I've replied in a separate new thread Building the autistic community?

I have been able to herd cats quite effectively. One of my cats, Samantha, actually waited for me to come upstairs with her. She was a very rare and special cat.

I second that advice on getting a hobby. My workshop is between my kitchen/bath area, and my bed/study area, and for years, I only had a path through a store room. I had been planning to continue work on some big projects, but got too depressed. Finally, I cleared a little space for art metalwork, the craft I enjoy most. It took years, but I'm building things of possible significance again.

since my last puter died a few months back, i really need to get hopping on reinstalling my audio restoration software and configuring it to work properly again, so i can get back to fixing records.

she sounds like a keeper

She was a wonderful cat and my best friend for 20 years. Samantha was the one who started my love of Siamese cats.

i haven't even seen a purebred siamese since about 1969.

Samantha wasn't a purebred Siamese. She was a tabby/Siamese mix, known as a Lynx point. I have had two of these beautiful cats.

False sense of purpose

False hope

False sense of security

I do. But without the bouncy emoji.

foreign languages and cultures are of increasingly strong interest... thinking to study to become an interpreter, but wouldn’t know if that’ll open enough doors to sense purpose.

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