I have OCD tendencies...where I don't like change. Things have to sit in the same spot at the same angle, just so. This hobby has been so rewarding in helping me overcome a lot. I can't even begin to explain the earlier days of undo stress of removing wiring and getting the wire back on and the tree back in the same position. Then...one day it just clicked. I am growing in this hobby...So each time the wire is applied and styled. It's BETTER! This hobby was a really good positive in that aspect for myself. I've thirty trees...My husband says they are my world...but, he's proud of them...of what I've accomplished. He shares photos of my trees...Gosh forbid he told more people when I got recognition in the Mother's Day newsletter that Bonsai Bark put out. VERY PROUD...encouraging...
I don't take drugs...I just cope. It's gotten easier as I've gotten older. Things that really bothered me...I come to realize as a more mature adult...aren't so important. I do feel it's real. My son, had issues back in school in preschool...it was overlooked and he was allowed to break the rules. Kindergarten as well. It was a Thanksgiving art project that each grade seemed to do. Well...first grade...NOPE...YOU FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS. Man, he came home and was furious...He butted heads with the teacher...He stayed in at recess to complete the colored turkey he had thought he had finished. The teacher made him glue things on this turkey that was to large...and it covered the lines. He asked to if he could remove a piece each day as it hung in the classroom in anticipation for grandparents day. I told him absolutely not...It would be a bald turkey by then. When he got to bring that craft project home...He hung it on his wall...leaving the pieces intact. It helped him too...pushed out of his comfort zone as to being forced to see...the world went on. So those life's lessons are better than drugs any day. Neither of us take drugs...We just know we have quirks...we deal with. That teacher ended up being one of his favorite teachers. Why...I believe for the lessons she taught him, more than academic.
It is what I always say. Happy I grew up in a time when there was no wholesale testing of kids. I would have been a lysdectic, autistic with social anxiety disorder. Instead, I grew up being bad ad grammer, good at math and prefered to be left alone.
Neither of us were tested...We just know we have quirks that tend to fall into that classification. But, as you say...this is the way of the world we live now where a disorder is tagged on a person...SHOOT even high IQ's now are classified as having a type of disorder...of OCD. I had a teacher tell me my son was very smart...and fell into that classification. I and my son both prefer to be left alone. I'm better with online situations...but at home...am a home body. Dislike touristic vacations... But you are point on.
I can’t even reply it’s so funny in the beginning but he asks real questions at the end! Slap the shit out of him may be the best answer! Lmao
You watch trees? As in watch them grow in pots or out in nature? I do the nature one.
It’s a knack!
