Being autistic and random stuff

[stickygirl]

I'm still in the phase where I keep coming across "oh this is related too!* She has helped with many of those.

After a lifetime of accepting other people's version of normality, the joy and validation of hearing the views of someone like you is a real buzz. I'd simply accepted that everyone felt and thought the same as me, but no one else thought to talk about it.
I'm glad you're still enjoying the process

 

[Strixaluco]

After a lifetime of accepting other people's version of normality, the joy and validation of hearing the views of someone like you is a real buzz. I'd simply accepted that everyone felt and thought the same as me, but no one else thought to talk about it.
I'm glad you're still enjoying the process

I've also had a lot of this classic "so you mean other people don't do this???"

 

[PMarky2]

Flexible mode is often necessary, but it's damn draining. We need to get to that safe mode regularly, often enough.

I'm convinced flexible mode is three to five times the battery load of safe mode.

 

[Strixaluco]

I'm convinced flexible mode is three to five times the battery load of safe mode.

In safe mode, if you have the possibility to indulge in special interests, it may even be like rest.

 

[Strixaluco]

And that is why having at least some part special interest in your job is a very good idea.

 

[PMarky2]

And that is why having at least some part special interest in your job is a very good idea.

Definitely. I love teaching early modern history and a couple of theology courses which key into my special interests, though I think it is more sharing what I have discovered that I enjoy than teaching. I now have enough seniority that I don't have to teach the courses which leave me an unmotivated mess. I used to cop for a couple of American history courses that bored the living shit out of me I found uninteresting.

BFOTS/Crush is trying to turn her special talent into a business but periodically has to go and work retail when there is a cash crunch. She is so happy when she can ditch the retail for a while and go back to concentrating on what really fires her up.

 

[PMarky2]

I had to go away for a week to take care of some family stuff, so now I am having difficulty adjusting back to 'home.' Being on my own in a fairly tidy environment where I could follow my routine, go hiking when I needed to de-stress, and not have to worry about unscheduled interruptions was pure bliss. Jetlag has left me tired, and that just makes my NT wife's 'randomness' harder to cope with because I am trying to cling to routine while I recover from the trip. I am probably driving her up the walls as much as she is driving me.

The other thing that is disturbing my tranquility is that although I picked that she is very judgmental/Miss Suburbia 1968 about folks who are on the Spectrum a long time ago, it has begun to bother me quite a lot recently mainly because I am picking up on it more than I used to.

Update 6/9/24: Finally over the jet lag and starting to cope. Been a rough 'reentry' this time.