Welcome Len!
This community was a much needed place to share and learn from for me too when I was
diagnosed in my late fifties after my Mother died.
With no other family and a relationship of almost 20 years ending, yeah, I knew lonely like
never before in my life.
I always had a lot of pets too, then it was like I just didn't feel the desire after the losses.
An Aspie friend just went through much the same. Lost his Mother, no family, and lost his dog.
He was feeling the same about getting another dog and I told him how I was working through
those feelings.
I started out with small creatures. Weird things like frogs, a beetle farm, I raise super worms
and got involved with helping raise Monarch butterflies.
It was a start to letting things back into my life that weren't overwhelming.
He agreed.
You'd be surprised how keeping a pair of darkling beetles in a fish bowl on the table beside where
I eat helps me not feel alone. I watch them while I eat and drop pieces of bread into them.
Told you it's weird. But, it works.
I also like to garden, listen to music, watch a little TV, read interesting things online and of course
check in here nightly.
