Imagine waking up in a foreign country, where everyone has a different skin color, you cannot speak the language, the culture is completely different, even the architecture is different. After a few years, you can communicate with others to satisify your basic needs and even carry on conversations about the weather. One day, you are at the local market and you bump into someone who not only has the same skin color and speaks your language, but is actually from your home town!
I had such an experience last night. I went to a meeting of a local self-help group for adult ADDers. I had never met someone else with ADD other than my son and sister, so it is hard to see them other than the people I have know all my life (or all their life). It was very different meeting new people with the same view of the universe. It was almost like a borg collective in that we essentially knew what the others were saying before they completed their thought. We were bouncing around to so many different topics and everyone was following the multiple trains of thought with no problem. Well, actually the lady from the city self-help office was having trouble and even mentioned that she was amazed that we were all able to follow things so well.
Although I have come to terms with my ADD and see it as a positive thing in many regards, it was wonderful to finally meet people face to face who "know".
I'll bet it was great!