It was a fandom. I guess what was pretty devastating about it, among other things, was that I really did manage to make some pretty good friends there. So that was another effect. As for the connection...I guess it was just kind of a realization that there were people out there who thought that picking on people with anxiety and people who were on the autistic spectrum were the last acceptable targets, so to speak, and nobody was going to say anything. For all intents and purposes, I was probably the bad guy. Maybe I was. Maybe I'm really overreacting about something (it's not the first time. ). But it was definitely pretty painful, and it did kind of remind me a bit of when I was younger, so I guess that didn't exactly help any. (Someone asked if I had some sort of trauma as a kid reflecting through this, and...well, from a certain point of view, yeah. More precisely, school-related trauma. I mean, so far, in my digging, I've found a lot of stuff that links back to school-related trauma that was put behind me but not really resolved) I...hope that makes sense.