It came today from the UK, and she sent me not only a handmade postcard, but also a birthday card, an extra blank postcard, stickers, stamps, and inside the envelope … another envelope filled with goodies for my junk journal.
She REALLY read my profile and put her heart into it. 🥹
I’m honestly so touched.
Hello! I’ve just found this sub. I’ve started postcrossing again after an hiatus of almost 10 years, sadly all my cards are still traveling and I’d really like to receive some birthday mail. My birthday is at the end of the month and it’s perfectly fine if they arrive after May. I just want to smile after a rough year.
Some ideas:
- illustrations like in aquarell and collages
- architecture and museums of your city or places you visited
- Heated Rivalry (hello loons!)
- paintings of your favorite artist
- street art
- cats
- avocados and strawberries
- self made cards are always welcome!
You can PM me for my address , I’m also willing to send a decorated (see my latest post in my profile) self made card back for those that wish so.
Thank you in advance!
I was just done writing about reactivating my account after almost 10 years and scrolling through the sub and someone posted about getting Jürgened.
Last week I got this postcard (from the seem to be famous Jürgen) and have been trying really hard to decipher what he wrote in German.
Please people tell me more about his lore and why I seem to be one of the lucky ones.
I’ve sent 25 postcards total so despite my account being old I’m actually quite new 😅
After almost 10 years I’ve reactivated my account.
I saw videos on YouTube of people decorating their postcards in a very maximalist way (not my style at all) I didn’t even know that this was a thing.
Since I got into journaling I have loads of stickers and Washi tapes so I thought to myself: why not?
I hope I inspire you to use things that maybe you have lying around already like paper, cut outs , stickers etc.
This is my 2nd batch going to: 🇮🇳🇳🇱🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸
and the feedback from other postcrossers has been lovely.
This has really make this hobby quite enjoyable for me again.
Happy Postcrossing!
I have ADHD. Since I started taking meds again after weaning my last baby, I slowly became more rigid and attached to certain routines. I thought it was because I finally had my executive functioning back, etc.
I also thought that not having a filter anymore, not having more f*cks to give, and the rigidity were just perimenopause, not possibly an inability to mask (a concept that’s still hard for me to fully understand) that became more noticeable under meds.
My husband is autistic (self-diagnosed at first, but I was actually the one who told him about the possibility). Well… he’s now been officially diagnosed with ADHD so he is AuDHD, and I couldn’t believe I didn’t see it coming since I have ADHD myself and didn’t notice but it really makes sense.
He’s also brought up the possibility of me being autistic, especially since I started a new medication dose that feels perfect for me but also seems to make certain autistic traits much clearer.
I always thought I knew a lot about autism, but I never saw it as a possibility in my own mental health journey. I’ve been watching videos from diagnosed AuDHD women talking about masking, and somehow my whole world suddenly makes sense. And it’s scary. I also keep wondering: how did anyone miss it?
When I saw the video i linked specially the part about affecting people that described my life pretty well btw and never saw mentioned before, I really saw myself. (I need to understand that (people love me or hate me ) more so if you have resources or can’t point me in a direction where to find more about that or how to „call“ it please enlight me)
So many things make sense now when I look back, but I guess the former gifted-child-to-burnout pipeline didn’t exactly make it obvious either. I guess my internalized ableism isn’t helping either.
Part of me worries that my psychiatrist isn’t going to believe me, and another part of me doesn’t want to believe it either. I worry about this being a new hyperfixation.
I also feel bad because I remember feeling hurt when my husband was sad and frustrated about having ADHD, because I have it too. And now here I am struggling to cope with the idea of possibly being autistic.
He is at least had the possibility of getting help through meds.
I already take medication, but somehow they seem to be making masking (or what I’m trying to understand as masking) much more difficult.
What did you do? How did you feel? Were you sad or worried too?
I hope someone reads this and understands. I feel like the only one that feels like this.