Most Of This Describes Me. I Know I Wasn’t Diagnosed As A Child Because Not Much Was Known About Autism,

And my thoughts went from that poor saxophonist to look at that flexibility and strength. Oh wait, looking at the flexibility they might have had a type of EDS.

Still iconic and brilliant. Much wow.

The blessed time of Cab Calloway of his orchestra and his extraordinary dancers.

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As a ND person, I hate having to take communications courses in college. It reaffirms that NT people are confusing AF.

Today’s study session is excruciatingly boring. Conjunctions, clauses, and netiquette. I know I wouldn’t take this business communications course if I didn’t need my literacy credit. It bores me to tears some days.

My motto for the semester? Good enough. It’s helped me through many study sessions and assignments.

This is challenging to remember. I’m supposedly high-functioning but I forget to stand up and go to the bathroom regularly until it’s an urgent need, I frequently forget to eat, and if it weren’t for my wife, I’d forget to take my morning pills every day. I’m terrible about hygiene. I don’t clean until it’s bad. And I’m terrible about time management.

And yet, I’m high-functioning. So who knows…

on the whole issue of levels vs support needs…

I’m level two. you can probably tell I’m autistic after one conversation with me (or at least tell that something is up with me). I can’t mask, I stim constantly, and I have meltdowns roughly once or twice a week.

that being said, I am definitely low-mid support needs. I’m academically gifted, I’m good at a lot of “difficult” tasks, to the point that I’ve been called “high functioning” more than once.

however. I cannot do a lot of the more “basic” tasks. I need cues to remind me to eat, sleep, have a shower, etc etc. leaving the house makes me so exhausted that I can’t go out and then come home and cook dinner on the same day.

these things aren’t straight-forward. you can be in more than one category at once. your needs can fluctuate depending on other life factors. it’s okay if you don’t know where you fall on the support needs spectrum, or if it changes

I like it, “eternal illness”

Instead of "chronic illness" I'm going to call it "eternal illness" because then maybe, just maybe, people will understand that I'm not getting better soon.

WIP #3

Didn’t make as much progress as in days before, but with for good reasons! I got blood drawn for my endocrinology appointment, I made a few calls that needed to be made, got coffee with the wife and got her “minter”, and other things I can’t remember that needed done.

And! The husband found a holographic snowflake light to put in the front yard so our house isn’t so dismal against the rest of the neighborhood and their lights.

Today didn’t suck.

The Mother of All Snowflakes WIP #1

Pattern by Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n Thread

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I’ve been itching to get back to cross stitching for a while now. I have one all planned out for a friend, but I can’t find my white aida cloth to start. At least, I think it’s big enough for what I need. Not working makes things challenging when needing to purchase supplies. The black aida I purchased earlier this year was just a bit to narrow for what I need, so I decided to repurpose it. To snowflakes, of course! Did a little Google search, found this free pattern and here I am. Also, black aida is a bitch to work on. it feels like a miniature litebrite. I’m a quarter done with it after starting on Friday, which is weird to think. It’s been good for keeping my hands and mind busy, especially with the wife having seizures off and on all day. She was supposed to have an ambulatory EEG this weekend, but our outlets in our 1950s house are too small to accommodate what the tech needed to plug the camera into. Now we get to schedule a 72 hour EEG at the hospital in the middle of respiratory disease hell season. Weeee!

In better news, our plumbing is getting replaced tomorrow. Or rather, the plumbing replacement process starts tomorrow. Jackhammering at 8 am! Who doesn’t love getting woken up to jackhammering right next to the bedroom? Although I just thought of something. Wife’s seizures have been sound triggered as well; this could get really messy.

a collection of motivational insights regarding content creation and creative hobbies

and of course the classic

I’ve always wanted to be on a jury but I never make it to the selection process. Closest I’ve been is in the waiting area and told they don’t need anyone else.

What about when your health is a shit ton of lemons, and you have to deal with those lemons plus the life lemons? I’m so tired of making lemonade. I just want to throw those fuckers.

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autistic life hack if you need your food prepared a specific way and your needs aren't being listened to as an adult, pretend you have an autistic kid you are ordering for as people are more sympathetic to helping autistic caretakers than actual autistic people