OCD's support is expanding!

Hello everyone! This is the 476th compilation post of OCD's latest curation efforts. It has been known that OCD has been supporting leading niche communities under its Community Incubation Program. However, there are still a lot of other niche communities not supported by OCD. This curation initiative will help in supporting those communities.

This newest curation effort aims to encourage authors to post in appropriate communities even if those communities are not under the incubation program. This will also encourage users to explore more into the different communities in Hive.

OCD curators and community leaders will find posts from other niche communities and recommend them for an upvote. Unlike those communities in the incubation program where curation is focused, this curation initiative is spread out. This will help find undervalued posts from smaller communities that deserve support.

This will highlight both the author and the community where the post is located. This way, smaller niche communities can focus on growing their subscribers and increasing the engagements within their respective communities. A small boost goes a long way.

Speaking of boost, here are the curated posts for this batch:

Hello hive community, how are you all doing at the moment? Every April 2nd is celebrated the World Autism Awareness Day, decreed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, with the aim of raising awareness among the general population about this condition, and contribute to improve the quality of life of both individuals diagnosed with this condition and their families. This is how this date seeks the social inclusion of all those who suffer from this condition, I include myself because I received in my adult stage this diagnosis, and realizing that I am asperger, made me understand several things about me that in the past I did not see any explanation.

Last week of March my 3rd sibling arrived here in Manila from Bicol, he will be staying at the house of our 2nd sibling. The moment I learned that he will go here I asked my mom to buy me some longganisa and pancit. The day before my 3rd sibling's departure my 2nd sibling called me and ask me why did I send money to our mom to buy my favorite food 'cause he already bought enough foods for us. We ended up laughing each other, he wanted to surprise me I guess? But he was the one who's surprised. That simple thought from my sibling makes me feel so happy, even though we have our own families we still thought of each other.

Spring is gaining momentum every day, its strength is growing. Today, after work, I was driving along the railway and saw that the snow had already disappeared along the track. I've been waiting for this moment for almost 2 months. My wife and I took a walk along the railway track in early February and were going to do it again, but circumstances prevented our walk. Last time the snow made it difficult for us to move, in some places it was loose and it was difficult to move. Now I think that nothing will prevent us from taking a walk on the "iron" on Saturday.

The fearsome woman now known as Obsidian grew up in the remote village of Stonebluff as the last remaining Earth mage. Each year, Earth elementalists went off to compete in the contest, leaving Obsidian to train the next generation of warriors. She wished to join the contest of champions, but the village elders advised her against it, saying she needed to stay behind and focus on training others to use Earth magic.

Basket making is one of mankind's most ancient skills. Due to the somewhat transient nature of most basket making materials, it's hard to say exactly how long people have been weaving baskets, though I believe actual basket remains were found at Nahal Hemar that dated around 6000BC. You can read more about my brief history with this primitive skill here.

Yesterday I went to the nearest wet market to buy some fresh vegetables. I saw the bean seedling were very fresh and bought some home. Besides that, I also bought red chili, corianders, old ginger, tofu and Enoki mushrooms for preparing to cook dinner for my family.

Today let me share with you an easy and simple homecook vegan meals: Braised Vegetarian Jerky Bean Seedling Rice and Steamed Enoki Mushroom Tofu with Mushroom Paste.

Hello beautiful community that I love! Today in my contribution #4 to this beautiful community (I'm going to list them until I get to #10 ha ha) I want to share a story that happened to me some years ago. I remembered it when I was going through my gallery of old photos, I said to myself: "I have to share this" .It's a little complicated to tell. I'll try to give you the details you need to understand it. I couldn't find a better title for this embarrassing fact, so I will clarify it as I develop the story.

Today I come to tell you a nice family experience of which I am protagonist along with my first cousin named Nelson, my mom and my aunt got pregnant on the same dates, both very young, my mom was 15 years old and my aunt was 18 years old, They were confident that the lack of menstruation was because they ate some "grapefruits with salt" and so the months went by until my grandmother worried about her "hormonal uncontrol" took them to the doctor first to my aunt where she received the news that she would be a grandmother as my aunt already had a boyfriend and plans to make her life with him did not take her by surprise, however my mom with only 15 years old never imagined it.

It turns out that the company I work for decided that we, the sales clerks in the stores, would have less hours, which means that we would be paid less than usual. And for the month of January, which was the worst month, we had fewer hours worked, which translated into less pay on February 3 when we received our pay. Obviously in February which is the shortest month of the year, we had even fewer hours to work and get paid. And when my vacation starts on March 2, I was not credited with either the vacation or the previous month's salary but both payments together on the 8th of the month, which was the 5th working day of March. Which means: I spent my first week of vacation locked up like a house in jail, drowning in debt and worrying. I only had Hive, which although it is quite a lot, I didn't want to touch it because I knew that for the next month I was going to be super short.

I was scrolling through my hive feed when I come across the Qinspired post about the contest From the neighbour's point of view which I strongly pick interest in and without wasting time decided I am definitely going to participate.

This concludes this batch's curation report. We would like to congratulate those who are featured and supported. Keep up the good work and continue to explore Hive Communities.