@mutualaid Sorry for continuously posting this, but this is an emergency! If £9.49 isn't paid today, my phone number will be deactivated! I'm very stressed and anxious right now!
@mutualaid I'm £0.10 short of my £9.49 phone bill this month, and it's due in 5 days. I'm trying to get some help to find a job, but until then, #MutualAid is all I can rely on.
Unpacking the dishwasher and then making my bed with one hand.. because I'm holding a bag of oats in my other hand.
Why? Because I have adhd and got distracted before making breakfast, so I've been carrying oats around the house for the last 20 minutes without noticing.
@wakehamAMR Well, with AuDHD I can sometimes (=roll a d3) function in times of crisis but then my autism needs some reeaaaal time alone to recharge; or I can work with patterns when I trick my hyperfocus to do it, but my exhaustion afterwards just lets me flop on the bed; or I don't manage anything at all (critical miss) and am a miserable pos laying depressed on the floor shrug
"I was born to a family that harnessed the winds and could read futures in fire and water. Yet my mother kept her secrets. Then the werewolf came, sharing his madness. Now it’s my turn to keep secrets...."
I am constantly feeling overwhelmed. I can't believe there are people who struggle the same as I do in situations like floods and wildfires, or trying to stay alive in places like Yemen or Syria or Gaza.
I tried being kind to myself and allowing myself to be half an hour late to work, as I was tired and still overwhelmed from yesterday. It didn't work out though as just as I arrived at work I had a big migraine and had to come home. Migraines are so strongly linked to overwhelm. It's like they're just another release valve for not coping with sensory input.
Do allistic people really need constant interaction with others? In person? It sounds horrific. I lived with other people for years. Often they want interaction. That's just brutal for the autistic mind isn't it? #Autism#autistic#neurodiverse#lgbtqi#ActuallyAutistic
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I guess, but don't know, you live/work in the US. I work in a govt paid job in Australia and thankfully I am left alone to be weird, in fact my line manager checks in with me every month or so to see how I'm going.
My colleagues generally ignore or are kind about my migraines, dissociation and lack of communication. @actuallyautistic
@ideogram@actuallyautistic Gvt as well, opposite side of the planet but same King. ;)
Somehow they can talk effusively about Equality-Diversity-Inclusion and how important "these people" are to the organization... and on the same breath discuss authoritatively (with wide nods all over the room) on how they value networking and how they all need to push back on promotions (even on the technical path) until someone has developed better social skills. 🤷♂️
@Faintdreams A good argument against claims of purposeful design, really (along with many others; my wife says "knees!".). And there are fair arguments that consciousness is an accidental side effect of trying to manage multiple social relationships in growing primate bands, or indeed a lie told by the brain to itself.
@Faintdreams 0-20 is a really big range, I'd consider 6 to be around what's my highest. I can't think properly with many tabs open, also being someone that never really had good hardware to handle this kind of thing, it has always been weird to me. I usually have one for YouTube and then maybe some other 3.
The day when you take the achievement snatched from many year's of precious spare time moments, put on a cover & upload it to bookstores.
I'm there with epic #fantasy book 3/3 in my debut trilogy, and sad to let these beautiful, #queer, #neurodiverse characters and the found family they made go.
With this book, I pushed my ability to plot a complex, multi-civilisation conflict to its limits.
I loved every bit of it. I hope some of you do too.