This is the way. I just use my hiking stick.
Hello I am new, confused and excited about Lemmy! I like the vibes.
This is the way. I just use my hiking stick.
I don’t have a lot of advice on how to identify triggers, it’s a crap shoot, but here is what I do about them when I feel overwhelm coming on.
One: Belly breathing. This is beyond a doubt the greatest skill I learned in therapy. Plenty of tutorials online for it and few different versions.
Two: Imagine a dial on your stomach with the numbers 1-10. 10 being meltdown and 1 being completely calm. Picture yourself slowly turning down the dial while taking deep breaths.
Three: I started carrying a small fidget toy in my pocket that I can play with when I feel like I want to rip off my skin and run screaming out of the biulding.
Hope this helps!
I think he pretty much nailed how it feels to be autistic, at least for me. Really great skills in some areas and then absolutely terrible skills in others. How exhausting masking is. I think I only ever unmask when I am alone. It scares me to ask where do I end and mask begins? I’m not sure I know anymore.
I’m not able to watch the video until I get home today, but I am a high functioning autistic women. I have been told SO MANY times I can’t be autistic. Not that I don’t act like I have autism, not that I don’t seem autistic, that I can’t be. It isn’t until poeple see what work and socializing takes out of me that they truly understand I am autistic and how much WORK goes into appearing to be normal so I can keep my job.
This is not a healthy coping mechanism but I bribe myself with cookies like I’m a dog. If I get up and put the laundry in the dryer I get a cookie. If I send that email I get a cookie. It usually works. It won’t really make me enjoy life but it does get me through it, if you know what I mean.
Yup. After my diagnosis there was a lot that suddenly made sense looking back on it.
I don’t think so. I think you’re supposed to look at both somehow. I haven’t got this completely figured out.
I have taught myself to do it relatively well, although it still feels like their is electricity in the back of my brain. I can think through it but it’s hard. I also do it intermittently, I don’t make myself hold it unless for very serious conversations. I also tend to look at one eye at a time, but no one has called me out on it yet.
I’m not holding out hope here, a lot of the lead writers left after the EA takeover.
I swear to fucking god the next white dude who tries to play Devil’s Advocate with me is getting throwen out the window.
I love the term Neuro-spicy! I’m stealing that one.
I can get a version of this, but instead of heat it feels like my skin is full of bees.
Mr Peanut has seen atrocities. It’s canon now.
I hate it when I cut the tag out but there’s still tag material caught in the seam that I can’t remove without undoing the seam. Arrggghh!
The loophole for my local amish is they can use it, but not own it. Which sounds great until they’re clogging up the parking at the Scratch N Dent with their bosses tractor.
Right!? I was sick for two weeks each time. I couldn’t have taken anymore time off. Deep down I knew I probably shouldn’t have been working during the worst of the fog but I needed the money.
Good god. I had covid twice, once before the vaccines and once after being vaxxed. I had a month of bad brain fog after each. It’s terrifying to think I was going to work and driving while my brain was leaking.
Murdering a bunch of poachers in the Forbidden Forest by throwing cabbages at them. I doubt the Ministry is going to be too happy about my body count.
True! Hopefully the manned missons land right side up.
I do! It’s one of my favorite parts. I read the books long before I saw the movie and I enjoyed them both. Didn’t really get all the hate for it to be honest.