Hello, I am Flown <3

[Flown]

I just joined AutismForums this morning, and I'm a little nervous about introducing myself here.

I'm a nature photographer/biographer and a naturalist, and I spend as much time as I can observing, hiking, photographing, and cataloguing my findings. I have a strong interest in fungi, plants, and insects, but I love learning about anything and everything! I cannot say that I am a specialist as I have a tendency to jump from one hyperfocus to the next.

I love to both learn and create. On the one hand, I love learning about anatomy & physiology, environmental topics, biology, and the life sciences. On the other hand, I love writing poetry, knitting, and creating mixed media art/paintings.

Unfortunately, I have multiple chronic health issues that prevent me from doing all that I'd like.

ʚɞ I'm nonbinary/genderfae. My pronouns are she/they (don't have a preference). ʚɞ

I look forward to meeting you all (here on the forum) and learning more about you all!

 

[Owliet]

I just joined AutismForums this morning, and I'm a little nervous about introducing myself here.

I'm a nature photographer/biographer and a naturalist, and I spend as much time as I can observing, hiking, photographing, and cataloguing my findings. I have a strong interest in fungi, plants, and insects, but I love learning about anything and everything! I cannot say that I am a specialist as I have a tendency to jump from one hyperfocus to the next.

I love to both learn and create. On the one hand, I love learning about anatomy & physiology, environmental topics, biology, and the life sciences. On the other hand, I love writing poetry, knitting, and creating mixed media art/paintings.

Unfortunately, I have multiple chronic health issues that prevent me from doing all that I'd like.

ʚɞ I'm nonbinary/genderfae. My pronouns are she/they (don't have a preference). ʚɞ

I look forward to meeting you all (here on the forum) and learning more about you all!

Welcome to the forums!

 

[Flown]

Welcome to the forums!

Thank you, Owliet!

 

[maycontainthunder]

Welcome Flown. Have your first Dog V4 hug on this site!

 

[Flown]

Welcome Flown. Have your first Dog V4 hug on this site!

Yay! It is so good to see you here! *hugs back*

 

[Nitro]

 

[Flown]

Thank you, Nitro!

 

[Tom]

Life has a way of intervening with us doing all that we would like. But I find doing some of what we like is good enough for the most part. And if you find yourself in the position of being unable to do anything you like, then find something new to like that you can do. In other words play Jedi mind tricks on yourself.

Nature has always been a interest of mine. I particularly like animals and the other creatures in the world. Not intense or consistant enough to qualify as a 'special interest', but always there in the backround.

One life form that has always fascinated me specially is Ants. The parallel developments between us and them is amazing. In some cases what we have only started doing the last few thousand years they have been already doing for 100 million years or so.

 

[Suzette]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Misery]

Unfortunately, I have multiple chronic health issues that prevent me from doing all that I'd like.

I can sympathize with this one. Chronic pain in my case. It gets really old, really fast.

Definitely a nature lover here too, which includes insects. And yeah, non-binary.

As for art, er... I can make fractal images, so... that's at least something art-ish.

So there's some shared traits. I think you'll find plenty of others who have things in common with you too. This is a good place for that, though it's also a good place for watching topics derail at random, so that's a thing.

I hope you enjoy your time here.

 

[Flown]

Life has a way of intervening with us doing all that we would like. But I find doing some of what we like is good enough for the most part. And if you find yourself in the position of being unable to do anything you like, then find something new to like that you can do. In other words play Jedi mind tricks on yourself.

Nature has always been a interest of mine. I particularly like animals and the other creatures in the world. Not intense or consistant enough to qualify as a 'special interest', but always there in the backround.

One life form that has always fascinated me specially is Ants. The parallel developments between us and them is amazing. In some cases what we have only started doing the last few thousand years they have been already doing for 100 million years or so.

I'm still trying to master the Jedi mind tricks.

The Formicidae are fascinating, I agree. Eusocial insects in general are just mindblowing! It is really sad that the scientific world lost E.O. Wilson this week. :'( Have you read any of his works or watched any of the documentaries/films about him?

 

[Flown]

I can sympathize with this one. Chronic pain in my case. It gets really old, really fast.

Definitely a nature lover here too, which includes insects. And yeah, non-binary.

As for art, er... I can make fractal images, so... that's at least something art-ish.

So there's some shared traits. I think you'll find plenty of others who have things in common with you too. This is a good place for that, though it's also a good place for watching topics derail at random, so that's a thing.

I hope you enjoy your time here.

Nice to make your acquaintance <3

I'm sorry that you struggle with chronic pain as well. It can really wear one's spirit down. My health diagnoses list is really lengthy, so I'll spare you. In summation, I'm partially disabled, and my body doesn't like to cooperate with me.

I'm guessing we have a lot of ADHDers here with the derails?

 

[Tom]

I'm still trying to master the Jedi mind tricks.

The Formicidae are fascinating, I agree. Eusocial insects in general are just mindblowing! It is really sad that the scientific world lost E.O. Wilson this week. :'( Have you read any of his works or watched any of the documentaries/films about him?

Oh, I didn't know he passed. I am not well read (or well watched) on the subject, but came to know about him when I watched the documentary 'The Lord of the Ants'. His passion and devotion really impressed me.

I have been blessed with having a good stretch of property embedded within a nature preserve in my retirement and have enjoyed watching and where I can, helping the wildlife in small ways, mainly concerning setting up natural habitats. I love the neuts, other amphibians and small rodents (for lack of another word) especially.

When I find them I also watch two species of ant, roughly middle sized, one red, one black in their constant competition. The reds are migratory slavers and I've seen some strange behaviors.

More physical issues may be part of the Autistic landscape. I think I've seen some study data on that.

Even so, I have a feeling the spectrum could play a significant role in saving this planet from self inflicted destruction.

 

[watersprite]

Welcome.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Welcome, @Flown . It is nice to see a naturalist here. One of my special interests is aquatic macroinvertebrates. I monitor several rivers, collecting samples that I identify to the family level that can be scored for a measure of stream quality. This gets me back into taxonomy, the basis of biology, after my training in molecular genetics. I also enjoy paleontology with a special interest in Trilobites.

I am still stirred by Charles Darwin's closing of, On the Origin of Species; "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

My nature photography is generally underwater. like these Nudibranchs.

 

[VictorR]

Welcome! And your post reminds me that one thing I should do more of this year is to get out into nature more. Lots to explore in the PNW.

 

[Thinx]

Hi and welcome, I hope that you enjoy it here. Your interests sound great wish I could knit well. Sounds like you have plenty to do. I do some crafts and I like to write, and enjoy gardening and getting out and walking. Also nonbinary.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I'm still trying to master the Jedi mind tricks.

The Formicidae are fascinating, I agree. Eusocial insects in general are just mindblowing! It is really sad that the scientific world lost E.O. Wilson this week. :'( Have you read any of his works or watched any of the documentaries/films about him?

I particularly enjoyed his book, Consilience. Among insects I love to look for those straddling families, like seeing Velvet Ants at Lion Hollow, along the Green River in Utah. They are more like solitary wasps and I was entranced by them.

 

[Drulgren]

Welcome aboard. We share the nervousness and chronic health issues.

No one is ever truly alone here. I hope eventually you find a home here.

 

[Alexej]

Hi and Welcome @Flown