TonicTheBARD

Hi Eric One of my friends here has a T Shirt that says "Hang on, let me Just OVERTHINK This.." I *WANT ONE!!* Welcome! Hope you see what you need to see here, some time. Sometimes the SMALLEST of improvements in your life/psych can be So Good, you Appreciate it more, maybe? Mr Bro has Aspergers, and was a TOP Earning Computer Programmer. If he was handed a piece of custom software to fix, He'd go through it removing ALL "Kludges" around BAD/redundant code, and THEN Tighten it up! Maths Degree! Worked for BOEING at the air base, Improved the Accuracy of Bomb Sightings by 30% f

Hi Huerta Welcome! I am DAVID. I Love to Write and Read, even been PAID for the Former! Musician composer too. We should ALL Pool our Talents and CREATE some project - HEALING one! Don't DO Games, but My Bro Lives for them! Balder's Gate, been through All of MIDDLE EARTH Online many times... DISTRACTION - is My Best TOOL, helping others, and I used it as a Kid too (CSA OUTSIDE of Home, ages 8-9, 12 and 14..) I am Manic Depressive, Helps in Depression. Nice to MEET you!

Hi KooKoo. Welcome! If it's your First SITE, and First, Silence-Breaking Tell, Doubly Welcome! I read first too, you SOON learn you are Not Alone, as you probably felt for years. 36 years in MY case! That's LESSON TWO. Lesson ONE is "It Wasn't YOUR FAULT!", of course. And you get the Feel of some of your Neighbors. I was at one site briefly (seemed a bit Toxic and Authoritarian) But Saw someone PURE Gold there, from The Beauty of Her Compassion & Soul. My Dr Lynda N in South Africa. Zanzibar Born INDIAN like Freddie Mercury!! We both Left that Site together. I stole their JEWEL, Like In

Hi Kia THE SILENCE is Ingrained into all of Us. Or THREATENED into us. I was Way too SHY to even use the Words to describe what had happened to me (no, that I had LET HAPPEN! Didn't realize I was Groomed) in front of my parents. Shame. Guilt. Fear. Misery. Self-Disgust and Self Loathing.. The List goes Ever On and On. Hard taking it ALL apart! Piece at a time. Hope you find Relief, Comfort and HELP here!

Hi BrokeNn Hope you find Comfort and GOOD Advice here, from people who share YOUR experience, what THEY have Tried, that might work for YOU. That's the way I work. DV Not MY area of expertise. But have had Friends who have experienced it, had one friend of a friend Stay with us Couch Hopping on the run... Here's to HEALING and Triumphing over Adversity.

Hi Eagle. I am NEW here too, like you, but NOT to Survivor forums in general. We ALL have TRUST ISSUES... But we Have to Take FIRST STEPS! It is good to have Friends who KNOW!! We ALL speak a Secret Language, we Survivors. Welcome from Me!

Tonic The BARD here, Bidding you G'Day/Bon Jour/Gutten Tag from AUSTRALIA!! 😁 New to This Forum, but Survivor forum Vet since 2004. Been Around. Seen A LOT, if not ALL. CSA Survivor, ages 8-9, 12 (the Worst) and again at 14. Hope to get to know you all soon! I Actually READ the rules - only 12 or so! No colored Text etc, GOTCHA! Have Coached MANY Friends along the way so far, ope I can help here too. BARDS were not Just Musicians/minstrels. We are Writers, Poets, players, Story Tellers, Keepers of Law and LORE, Settlers of Disputes, and (hopefully) Bringers of Wisdom