I haven’t been on much because I’ve been having a hard time with trauma from child abuse. My therapist who I’ve been seeing for years asked me why it has been bothering me so much lately. I told him that I used to do artwork of me as a young child being loved on by people who I considered my safe people. (To elaborate, my safe people are people who I’m comfortable with sharing really personal experiences and thoughts to and they won’t judge me. Also due to my autism and adhd I’m a really weird person and they don’t get mad if I stim loudly by making weird noises, I stim by jerking around or rocking and if I’m getting over stimulated they actually help me and not get mad like my parents do.) he asked me why I stopped doing that and I told him that my mom found my artwork and got upset because she thought it was weird and creepy so I stopped doing it. I would show my safe people these pictures and they thought it was cute and they loved them. Now that I started doing it again I feel so much better and I forgot how soothing and comforting it was. I don’t think I’ll ever post them on this website because I don’t want people to get the wrong idea and I certainly don’t want creeps to sexualize what is supposed to be a calming thing for me. However if I do decide to I’ll make another account but explain that the artwork is supposed to be a coping mechanism for my trauma and I won’t tolerate people sexualizing it.