stu914 Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 @Shotgun185 Welcome bud, You do realise this place is full of criminals? TBF I've met members of the so-called 'law abiding' society behaving a lot worse than you'll find on here... See you around the place... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun185 Posted July 4, 2023 Author Share Posted July 4, 2023 @stu914 @PHatDriver @Revive @lildaveham cheers for the warmest of welcomes. I look forward to seeing you all on the site and actually interacting instead of just reading in the back ground wondering! have just sent @Joolz some subscription money. So will be looking forward to some free subbies beans! shotgun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revive Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Just now, Shotgun185 said: @stu914 @PHatDriver @Revive @lildaveham cheers for the warmest of welcomes. I look forward to seeing you all on the site and actually interacting instead of just reading in the back ground wondering! have just sent @Joolz some subscription money. So will be looking forward to some free subbies beans! shotgun Always around mate I'm an outdoor grower so I tend to be more active in the guerilla growing forums but im sure we will cross paths at some point.. Good to hear your soon to be a subscriber, the subbie seed list is on fire atm Be lucky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakapple Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 Hi, 60 ish yrs old. [Which clearly means I'm older!] I too was a lurker of late..and plucked up courage to join.Was growing in soil indoors, mainly from cuttings, never ever 'moved with the times'- Things have moved on such a lot- I should have kept ahead of things. I'm old enough to remember when people got really slammed by cops for tiny amounts- so residual paranoia from those days, too. I used to do a 'Perpetual' where one was put in every ten days or so, but a herm issue began to cause problems this year. Huge leccy bills have made me think about LED and being much more efficient- I feel embarrassed when I look at the pics on here where everything is so ordered and well behaved. Cheers, Oak 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakapple Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 On 03/07/2023 at 7:56 PM, Shotgun185 said: @geogeo @OldFord @MoT thank you for your nice welcome. will be getting some pics up soon. Yer have been using Firefox for this site after reading about it! Have uploaded a couple of water sample pics and all went with a breeze! So far so good! With the autism, I have always thought life seemed a bit different for me but I’m from the era when nothing was known about it and I was just a pain in the arse kid! It’s come to light more as my son has it and the similarities with things is unreal! But since jumping through the first load of hoops on the road it has explained a lot about me and my life. When I was younger I never really noticed it as I was so dam high all the time and life seemed so easy. Hence why I’m back here trying to grow some calm for my life. I’ve had the dreaded long covid for 18 months now as well and that ain’t no fun either! shotgun I think so many of us were undiagnosed as kids back in the day- we were considered 'Naughty' or 'Fidgety'..You are younger than my son {just} and certainly diagnosing kids at school then just wasn't done like it is now. Son had terrible dyslexia- if you couldn't afford to send your child to a specialist dyslexia school, there was nothing to be done...you just had to ride it out. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iShouldCoCo Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Oakapple said: I think so many of us were undiagnosed as kids back in the day- we were considered 'Naughty' or 'Fidgety'..You are younger than my son {just} and certainly diagnosing kids at school then just wasn't done like it is now. Son had terrible dyslexia- if you couldn't afford to send your child to a specialist dyslexia school, there was nothing to be done...you just had to ride it out. Very true - I was born in the 70s and I am only now starting to collect diagnoses and co-morbidities. Currently being referred to the local Adult Autism Assessment service by my GP after my therapist and CMHT nurse suggested I might want to consider whether I could benefit from an Autism assessment. Umm I seem to have been masking so well, I hid it from myself.... seems like a common thing for us olds. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun185 Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 @Oakapple welcome aboard! So I think it’s the case for so many people, I was diagnosed with dyslexia just after I finished school! Brilliant but anything I have has never stopped me getting on in life! Apart from long covid! Yes I may say the wrong things to people at the wrong times but that’s who I am and that’s how I act. so until recently I would of thought that I wasn’t on the spectrum but after starting to be diagnosed and told it’s a very strong case it has filled a lot of blanks in for me for things throughout my life! It’s still a long road to go as it’s a 2 year wait but it’s made me feel better getting through the first stage and being able to answer so many questions of why I’m like and who I am. My boy is like a mini me and it’s great watch what I was like and thinking he will be bought up so different because i know so so much on how he thinks/acts and how to deal with it from my own experience! Sorry for the long reply! atb shotgun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun185 Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 50 minutes ago, iShouldCoCo said: Very true - I was born in the 70s and I am only now starting to collect diagnoses and co-morbidities. Currently being referred to the local Adult Autism Assessment service by my GP after my therapist and CMHT nurse suggested I might want to consider whether I could benefit from an Autism assessment. Umm I seem to have been masking so well, I hid it from myself.... seems like a common thing for us olds. This is so true also. I think I had learn to live with how I am so much it’s the norm! Life is so different for everyone that we all adapt in some way to make us who we are! People who know me know how to take me and to be honest people who don’t know me will probably take it the wrong way, we’ll I don’t care.it’s who I am! I just don’t know where the line is, and always seem to cross it or put my foot in it.but as I say my few friends/family know I don’t mean it and that I just say it how it is.sorry again just waffling on! shotgun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakapple Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 4 hours ago, iShouldCoCo said: Very true - I was born in the 70s and I am only now starting to collect diagnoses and co-morbidities. Currently being referred to the local Adult Autism Assessment service by my GP after my therapist and CMHT nurse suggested I might want to consider whether I could benefit from an Autism assessment. Umm I seem to have been masking so well, I hid it from myself.... seems like a common thing for us olds. Agreed.. A film that really resonated me in adult life was ''Kes'' , I was taken to the cinema as a kid to watch it, but it was as an adult watching it on you tube that it really hit home with how violent school was for some kids in that era, especially the likely ADHD/Autistic ones. I went to school with ''Billy Caspar'' type kids- probably knocked from pillar to post at home, then getting thrashed by the teachers as well for not listening or forgetting their games kit {Like Caspar!} Bright kids- just misunderstood, and unconventional. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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