When it comes to supportive environments, I have not seen all there is to see.

This is one of the top highlights in my app storyteller.

I'm doing a series this week on the top highlights in my app, and this is one of them.

And the fact that this is one of the top ones has a lot of special meaning to me,

being autistic and having ADHD, because the idea of a supportive environment can be very

hard to find. Because what does a supportive environment even look like? What does that even

mean? If you Google it and try to find pictures, you'll see people

sitting around in a circle. You'll see some kids playing in what looks to be in elementary school

environment. And while of course, these are absolutely places where a supportive environment can exist and thrive

and times it may be hard to look at those images and see ourselves this is an experience that

I feel like I have when I look up different words or different meanings of things that I'm trying to discover what they may mean in my own life.

Another example of that is just Googling images of friendship and just recognizing how the way that I define friendship or the way that I see friendship, I don't see it in a lot of the pictures.

Not that there's anything wrong with the pictures, but it's just that for the word friendship itself,

there are lots of people climbing mountains together. And the few times that I have had to hike,

that's not really the way that I would define friendship. I'll just say

that. Nothing wrong with hikes in general. Just for me personally, I don't necessarily see myself there.

And I get it. These images are just metaphors. They're just meant to be visual expressions of possibilities.

And at the same time, though, I look at the fact that quite a few people have highlighted this

inside of the app, and that is when it comes to supportive environments, I have not seen all there is to see.

And what I take away from that is perhaps there are quite a few of us

who are trying to figure out what that means. Maybe there are quite a few of us who over the past

few years we saw our community change. We saw the people that we may have thought we were very close to or had a lot in

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