How do I cope when my skill with plants goes unnoticed?

You can keep almost anything alive and thriving, and hardly anyone sees the knowledge behind it. They see green leaves and assume it's easy, or luck. The resentment you feel is fair. Quiet mastery is a lonely thing, because the better you are, the more effortless it looks to everyone else. Here's a truth worth sitting with. The value of what you know doesn't depend on being noticed. The plants thrive whether or not anyone claps. The knowledge is real, the living things in your care are proof, and that's a kind of worth that doesn't need an audience to exist. Still, being unseen wears on a person, and that's worth honoring too. If you want the recognition, you may have to offer the knowledge, not wait for it to be asked for. Teach one person something you know. Show a neighbor why their plant is dying, or write down what you've learned. When your knowledge helps someone else, it stops being invisible, and you get to feel it matter.