...where everybody knows your user name. Or if they don't know your name, they know where you're coming from.

It's like a refreshing, relaxing, uplifting break from the "real world" of work and family and life in general that shores me up and makes it possible to continue on.

The people out there who don't get it aren't bad, they aren't even necessarily wrong, they just don't have that one thing in common that draws me here.

When I speak of Neurotalk to my husband or my daughter or my friend, I never say "message boards". I always say "the online support group" or just "the support group". A message board is for chit-chatting about perennials or antique tractors. This place isn't about posting, it's about communicating. (Though we can chit-chat here, too. Thanks, DocJohn)

You don't have to explain yourself until your lips turn blue, or defend your fatigue, or pretend to agree because you're sick of correcting.

You don't have to fake a good mood when your muscle spasms kept you from getting any sleep or when you discovered one more thing you can't do anymore.

You can gripe or sob about any symptom, or consequence of symptoms, any diagnosis or lack thereof, and reap a bountiful harvest of cyber-hugs and cyber-understanding.

Sometimes you just want to go where everybody is in the same boat. It helps keep me from sinking. God bless you all.