white_iris,

Just as you saw other people in the place where you are now, I see people on here in the place where I was. It was hard and it was very frightening but it is all beginning to make so much more sense now.

I offer some suggestions that I hope help some of you to deal with the scary stuff but I'm still a work in progress myself. We have 'others' who don't yet share our understanding but we are bringing them along gently, teaching them that it is okay to be who they are.

I am happy to pass on anything I learn. And if it's something someone can use then my struggle was worth it.