Posted by Ronnie on 7/2/2010, 2:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Just another story"

Thanks for your replies, guys, and I appreciate the sincerity of the 'workshop' recommendations, I hope maybe I will be able to do that sometime. But in some ways for me it's too late ... at 58, I'm sort of reconciled to the problem, it doesn't upset me as much as it used to, and my family having grown up and being more or less retired, the circumstances in which it becomes a real difficulty are less anyway. Or maybe I've just become good at 'avoidance' and sort of reconciled to it as a way of life, I don't know. But the best thing would be if people like me don't have to suffer in isolation for the years that I and, from what I read here, many others did, thinking they were alone in this. So any publicity is good, and gives younger guys the chance to come to terms with it more easily hopefully. So well done people like Jon Snow and the Charlie Brooker programme and so on, I think if there had been that sort of openness on the subject when I was 18 it would have been a less painful experience.

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