About the Author

 

Welcome to Life is COLOR

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GREETINGS!

My name is Nancy and I blog under the name of Strawberryindigo.

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I am a writer deep down to the very essence of my being. Words are the air that I breathe. I have spent much of my life locked inside myself. I kept my thoughts and feelings buried behind a high wall of my own creation.  I was frightened of everything, especially people. I was alone and felt I had nowhere to turn. Words became my best friends; my only true friends.  The people I knew thought they knew the real me but that was only a facade. I hid myself well, Observing from the shadows.  I felt so different, so odd. I would imagine that I was an alien being who had been deposited here by accident and someday my people would return for me. I felt so deeply. I still do. I would cry so easily…on the inside. I learned very early to keep this locked deep inside of me; this empathy for the world. It would hurt. I would feel pain; an emptiness that would ache and I would yearn for someone who was like me to share my thoughts and feelings with. I would sit alone in my room and write and write. I never shared any of these writings with anyone. I wouldn’t dare. Then they would know my secret that I wasn’t really one of them.

I hid myself well. I grew up fast; numbing myself in a blur of drugs and alcohol, but the pain was still there just underneath the surface. There were times that I wanted to die, but life went on. I had two beautiful young children by then and knew if anything I had to live for them. But I still wouldn’t allow anyone in my heart and my soul. This continued through my twenties and thirties. It wasn’t until my daughter, then in the 5^th grade, was diagnosed with Asperger’s, a form of high functioning autism that the pieces of the puzzle started to fill in for me. At first I denied it. How could she have Asperger’s, she is just like me and that is when it hit. I too was Asperger’s and I found that although I was and still am unique that I wasn’t alone, that I didn’t have to be. My life changed then.

I started to communicate online in a chat room for others on the spectrum. I found a group of people with so many similarities that was shook me to my core. Most of these people were younger than me and I found myself taking on the role of counselor to these young adults. I discovered that by helping others I was essentially healing myself.  The ache of my loneliness ceased the moment I said to someone else: “You are not alone, I am here for you”.  I found that I was braver and more outspoken than I thought I could ever be.

I decided to start blogging and My Life in Color began. I meant the blog to be about my life on the spectrum, a sort of inside view of life on the inside, but just as before I found that even in the Asperger’s community, I was still an oddity and I sought my own way. I decided to reach out to others in all walks of life around the globe. In the blogging community I was welcomed with open arms. My quirks and eccentricities, my colorful whimsicalness and my deep and strong feelings were viewed as assets not as strangeness. I was accepted and I bloomed and continue to thrive in this warm and welcoming atmosphere. I feel this is why I was put on this Earth: To reach out to those in need of reaching out to; the misunderstood and the alone, the quiet, the unique and yes…the odd…to everyone. I believe that all life is sacred, and we all need love. People, animals, and our beautiful planet Earth and I have put it upon myself to be an advocate for these ideals.

I have become braver and braver over the two years I have been blogging. I have learned so much from you;  the wonderful people I have been in contact with. I have made friends all over the globe and I am constantly inspired by these communications. I know that I am not alone and that I never will be again and that is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

 

 

I’ve wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember.  It is a dream of mine that I am finally pursuing.  I enjoy writing, it makes me happy.  I would like to share this happiness with you.  I believe I have a unique perspective on life that will be revealed as you read on. I have much to say; I can be opinionated and feisty and a bit over the top sometimes but I am honest and I care. I am inspired by our colorful planet full of life and all its beautiful forms.  I believe that optimism is contagious and that nothing is impossible.

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I am interested in interesting people and meaningful and intelligent conversation.  I value all opinions and I like to explore all sides of an issue.

 I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas. 

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I believe that by reaching out to others you are never alone. Feel free to comment on anything you see on this site. I welcome it.

I can be contacted privately at my email: strawberryindigo@gmail.com

PEACE and LOVE,

~Nancy

These are a few of my favorite things

• Hobbies:  Writing, Gardening, Photography and Visual Arts, Reading, Cooking, Philosophizing, Going for long walks, worrying and generally driving my family crazy.
• Interests: Botany, Genetics, Evolution, History,Politics,  Economics, Biology, Anthropology,Philosophy, Law, The Earth and The Environment, Popular Culture and Unpopular Culture, Music, Non-fiction, Science Fiction, Space; the final frontier, Life, The Universe and almost everything!

Keep coming back.  I am always in flux and so is this website. There will new content on a constant basis.

You never know what you’ll get…