Hello, I'm new here so it probably doesn't appear that I've been participating much, but although I don't wish to be a team leader, I do want to get involved more, maybe just with chatting to people, swapping stories and ideas. I just about manage to hold down a full time job, be a jobbing artist/illustrator on the side, and also run, at a slow pace, my Etsy store.
I've nearly lost jobs in the past through having noise intolerance, I think it may be called misophonia, and having depression - like a lot of people, if I could just craft and draw all day in my own little workroom, I'd be a lot happier and a more balanced individual, but due to needing a wage, I have to go and have a job.
Sometimes it's very hard due to having a lack of empathy and social skills (I may be on the autistic spectrum, too, but at nearly forty, it's going to be impossible to get any sort of diagnosis if I am) makes interacting in real life hard. It's much easier on here.
And there are others who have had a much tougher time of it than me, so if they can keep going and have fun, so can I. :)
