u/KittyMeowLady

I struggled with not being liked, but I just don't have the energy anymore. I guess that's the whole masking thing. I think when I'm having a hard time, I go into myself and just want to daydream and make book ideas up in my head.

Yeah!!!!! Cat lady gangs are the best!

I just find I get overwhelmed and triggered by everyone in my office and literally sit there with headphones on.

You just think with all the press around nuerodivergancy people would understand more. I worry about that as I just keep letting people down. Also, I just can't trust myself around drink. Everyone I know are still big drinkers, hangovers just last days or weeks and I can't shake that post hangover depression! Sending you big hugs. Also love your user name!

I'm just not good when people shout any random ones. I gotta start from 1 😹

Give it a go I took ages to finally watch it, but now I love it!

Gotta look after yourself. We all love to people please but forgot we need to be pleased too 💖

Thank you so much 😻

I can do basic maths and I can do 2,5,9,10 times table but don't just throw like 8 x 5 at me I will need to use my fingers 😹

I have taught myself to spell because I love writing and reading, but maths is the worst. I struggle with analog clocks. Oh and when people throw in the 24hr clock.... Just stop that right now! It's nice to know we are not stupid it's just we have dyscalculia! I struggled with musical notes. I could only ever play the piano one handed!

I just got to the bottom of all the lovely comments. It's nice we all understand how OP feels and how we are all in the same boat around the world. Sending hugs to you all. I know this has made me feel less alone. Also it made me want to cry for all of us too. Hang in there ladies!

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Do you know what? I found a group of friends just by the love of cats. Turned out they were all just like me. I felt scene for the first time. I never felt like I fitted in and there they were. My lil cat lady gang

Yeeeeeeep. I literally thought I was doing ok. Went to the doctor's and now I feel so down again

I literally have had to look at my friends and go, which ones do more harm than good. The sad thing is they don't mean to be bad, it's just they suck my energy and then I'm literally emotionally drained for days. I'm trying to be really good and just make sure the people I see feed my soul not drain it.

Sending you a big hug too

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Do you know what? All I want to do is give you the biggest hug. I'm sorry you are feeling like this, and we do feel BIG! it's really hard to deal with friendship groups. I have a friend who is a mental health nurse but she doesn't really get the AuDHD. She is another person who thinks it's over subscribed. I would help you. I'm sorry it's tough. I'm just coming out of a burnout and I still feel really raw. I am too terrified to be with some friends as I know they will zap my energy and put me back. Just know people you may never have met are rooting for you 💖

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Rupert is a reformed rake and we love him! Team Rupert 😭 I can't wait to see Alex in the next series getting all 90s vibes. Gah he is a beautiful man, can't believe I get to see him on the 10th.

I LOVE this. Yes we are getting our Horny P&P! Oh so I never got tested for that, I didn't even know it was a thing till recently, but numbers are the worst. I just don't get them. I was in the lowest classes for maths and never got it. I tried to retake my maths GCSE after the epic English score. I couldn't even get on the course. They were really horrible and couldn't understand how I just didn't get it. Yeah I am thankful I don't have to use maths that much. I use to work in retail and counting money up was horrible 😭

If you put your literature baby out there, you gotta be prepared not everyone is gonna be happy with your choices. Especially a long standing character, as people grow attached to them!

I'm not looking forward to reading those 😭 but it's her book she can do what she wanted. Their her characters at the end of the day. At least it ends with him knowing. To be honest I would of thought he would have kept his rakeish behaviour.

Yes 👏 Rupert is my Mr Darcy (or freaky Mr Darcy I saw him being called) I also love Christian Grey and I know he is massively flawed. Yes, I'm neurodivergant and I have dyslexia, which I know is in the neuro spicy family. I relate to her so much. Especially being born in the 80s and my parents struggled to get me diagnosed for dyslexia. I kept being called lazy. Don't worry when I was 32 I retook my English GCSE and got an A. I wasn't lazy I just wasn't nurtured right in education!

Dame Jilly Cooper has a similar Taggie character in all the books I have read so far, and they are very relatable. They are not your Sarah Stratton or Beatie Johnson. They are more normal and relatable. Normally women who have been treated wrongly or just been hidden and then some flawed beautiful man will sweep them off their feet 😭 Rupert and Taggie, Ricky and Daisy and Lysander and Kitty. I love these women and these men 😭

Oh I love Lysander he is the cutest 😭😭😭😭😭

Brilliant write up on this 👏 ughhhhh I'm only half way through the books I'm not looking forward to that bit. Taggie is way more confident in season 2. Book Taggie would have not been like that, poor little duck (lil Easter egg in there for the book lovers). Also in the book she is 18. I'm glad they be aged her up. There is a LOT of big age gaps in that book. Some are pretty creepy!

Thank you! I thought I'm sure it was noted!