Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 520 , Monday 31/03/2025

Monday started just before 7am when a mix of Mrs S mooching around the house & the sun fighting its way thru the blinds woke me up.

Got breakfast & read for a little while with my coffee then cracked on with my chores.

Around 9am I finally got outside & the first job was to clamber up the ladder to fix a downspout on the guttering that had broken loose in the wind - the screw holding it in had worked itself loose so I had to re-drill the hole & use a bigger rawl-plug & a heavier screw to hold the fittings in place securely.

Having scared myself ½ to death (I don’t do heights very well anymore.) I spent 30 minutes or so cleaning some more gravel before I had to go & get ready to see the GP about my blood test results.
On the plus side every thing apart from my cholesterol levels were fine, the doctor I saw suggested trying some additional meds to try & keep it under control.

I need to get onto a healthier diet I think (he says having just ordered a pizza as a last birthday treat for Mrs S.P) but food is a coping strategy for me & my MH is still far from ideal.

I need to get out walking again as well soon, gotta fight the invisible wall that keeps me inside the house.

It doesn’t help that after an encounter with neighbours earlier in the year where they essentially judged me for not getting out of the house more I have that added level of anxiety too. It should get easier now with the lighter mornings, if I can get out immediately after breakfast then

Final Thoughts.

I need to get out walking again as well soon, gotta fight the invisible wall that keeps me inside.

It doesn’t help that after an encounter with neighbours earlier in the year where they essentially judged me for not getting out of the house more I have that added level of anxiety too. It should get easier now with the lighter mornings, if I can get out immediately after breakfast then I can avoid peopling.

I do seem to be going backwards at the moment though, although I am pleased that I managed to get that guttering fixed today.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you!

@actuallyautistic
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

I think it's time for me to log off, revert to my basic profile and banner picture, and let all your feeds rest.

I spend a lot of my day reading Mastodon and anarchist media on The Anarchist @library.

As an anarcho-syndicalist, bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic individual, I also need to remember to take breaks sometimes.

Love to everyone on the Fediverse! See you in a day, a week, or whenever the mood strikes me to log back in!

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Discombobulated by clocks changing nonsense AGAIN.

Gah !

[UK GMT to BST ?]

#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD
#AuDHD

Autistics are not socially avoidant. People avoid discomfort. And people particularly avoid communication gaps.

Me: [likes several random toots in a thread]

Also Me: [goes back and likes the rest of the toots, because I don't want them to feel left out]

A general practitioner who went to medical school for six years now treats anxiety by prescribing a mindful colouring book and box of crayons, sources have reported.  Dr. Graeme Hart, who paid almost £125k for his training, really thinks you’d benefit from scribbling on this...

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You're not an over-sharer... You're "detail-oriented."

Some of us just don’t like being touched & that’s ok.

Sound advice here about how to interact with cats. Coincidentally this is Exactly the approach needed by #ActuallyAutistic people like me. And, in my experience, by kids.

I wonder, how is this not obvious to everyone? The answer, I think, is that so many of us learn when we’re young that we’re not entitled to have boundaries. Not entitled to be safe.

Cats can teach us So Much about #consent. We are all entitled to be safe. @actuallyautistic

‘She treats everyone with a deep growl’: can you train an angry cat to be more sociable? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/30/she-treats-everyone-with-a-deep-growl-can-you-train-an-angry-cat-to-be-more-sociable?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating:

to every #ActuallyAutistic person who has been abused or neglected by their family of origin, or who has lost them to severe misunderstanding or other failure to accept you as who you are.

From Rach Idowu:

"Procrastination, dread, scatter brain or analysis paralysis holds us back from doing things, even ‘simple’ things like household chores.

That’s ADHD for you!

Finding ways to get excited and simply tasks seem to help me quite a lot! What works for you?"

#adhd #ActuallyAutistic https://adultingadhd.substack.com/p/how-i-approach-doing-chores-with?publication_id=42649&post_id=160190304&isFreemail=true&r=3qggla&triedRedirect=true

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A little background for me: I was officially (as in by the medical community) diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic in 2019, but my own family suspected it at least as far back as the early 1980s, at a time when the label "autistic" was a lot more stigmatizing than it is now. So my own history and experience of the term is ... shall we say, a bit more fraught than many people's. I am very glad that more recently diagnosed (self- or otherwise) people don't have to deal with that to the same extent.

Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 519 , Sunday 30/03/2025

Sunday started at just gone 7, sorry 8am, the clocks nicking an hour from me & moving to BST.

Made breakfast & watched an episode of ‘Father Brown’ with my coffee then did some chores & went around the house putting the clocks fwd - those that didn’t automatically do so that is.

It’s not been a bad day weather wise, it started off a bit dull but the sun came out this afternoon.

I’d like to say that is has been a day of excitement & fabulous activities, but no, it was a normal Sunday of chilling out & watching some TV.

Final Thoughts.

Back to normal next week, Mrs S is back to work tomorrow. She’s working from home so I will have to wait until later in the week to get some true peace.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you!

@actuallyautistic
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

Acceptance vs Resignation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2IAnyjEmKU&t=43s

I plan to travel to the UK this summer. Does anyone has combined autism / ADHD printouts that fit a sunflower lanyard? #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD