I am finding that small acceptance and compliments from GGs, who approach me, who I don't know, mean more to me than GGs I know who provide the acceptance/inclusion I am looking for.
Do you?
I was at the beauty salon recently and while waiting for my nail polish to dry, a GG customer, who I had never met before, looked down at my toenails, complimented on my feet and choice of colour polish, then showed me her toenails and told me what polish she had pained her toenails with at home, then said she would choose the colour I had for her fingernails.
Acceptance from people you don't know, who have nothing to lose by not acceping you, means so much.