I feel like I've made quite a bit of progress in my healing journey. I've told my therapist what I've been up to and that I've been building my own website from scratch lol
Not only that, I've met quite a feel cool people in the Nekoweb space to confidently say I'm comfortable around them. They've helped me with formatting things if I get caught in a snag, they don't handhold but I follow their guides and end with a pleasant result.
I've also taken time to join a community centered around the revival of old IM clients like AIM, MSN Messenger and the likes. On top of that I downloaded Winamp and a few skins too.
I feel like I'm back in my childhood of 2005 again, I missed that era so much.
One of my friends have accurately said that with all I'm doing, I'm regaining that childlike whimsy I lost, which, honestly, they're not wrong.
I'm going to keep doing my best at making new connections, and by doing so in spaces I'm more comfortable/knowledgable with, I think I have a chance here.