Snowflake Challenge #5 | Life Changes
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverseaFandom can be a highly meaningful experience for many! We'd love to hear about how being part of a fandom has helped your life change for the better. Have you made any cherished memories or connections? Does fandom bring you joy? Tell us about the ways that fandom has helped you.
Fandom changed my life in so many ways, so it was challenging trying to settle on an answer for this one.
Fandom was the community I needed when I was lonely. I had just transferred from deaf classes to mainstream classes, from friends who I spent my childhood with to unfriendly hearing strangers. I had very limited opportunities to socialize with my old friends outside lunch period. Furthermore, our interests were starting to diverge, so when we did meet, it was awkward trying to find topics to talk about. It was a very rough transitional period, and I struggled a lot.
When I found online fandom communities, it was a blessing for me because I could chat with other people who shared my newfounded interests. I wasn't so lonely anymore with my fandom friends. I could tell them about my troubles and they were the good listeners I needed at that low point.
I don't know where I would be right now without fandom. I am so deeply grateful to fandom for being there during my difficult times.
Fandom changed my life in so many ways, so it was challenging trying to settle on an answer for this one.
Fandom was the community I needed when I was lonely. I had just transferred from deaf classes to mainstream classes, from friends who I spent my childhood with to unfriendly hearing strangers. I had very limited opportunities to socialize with my old friends outside lunch period. Furthermore, our interests were starting to diverge, so when we did meet, it was awkward trying to find topics to talk about. It was a very rough transitional period, and I struggled a lot.
When I found online fandom communities, it was a blessing for me because I could chat with other people who shared my newfounded interests. I wasn't so lonely anymore with my fandom friends. I could tell them about my troubles and they were the good listeners I needed at that low point.
I don't know where I would be right now without fandom. I am so deeply grateful to fandom for being there during my difficult times.
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