How dare you they are spreading freedom

Okay but now you are foreign interference 🤭

So you didn’t read the article?

I love that this article demonstrates that you didn’t care enough to read the article but you still wanted to wonder aloud if they came from some “undesirable” place so you could confirm your bias.

Woah, what a cool skill!

https://crazypeople.online/post/20277767

Sharing my “cooking” post here because I have given in to buying convenience food and the result is that I am eating better.

When I turned my nose up at things and insisted that this time I’ll actually cook… I was just lying to myself. I would eat all sorts of garbage snacks and feeling like garbage. It throws everything off for me, including my sleep.

Anyways, I bought some frozen roasted veggies. My spouse actually picked them up and added them to the cart. They are oily AF but super tasty. With that critical component of the meal sorted (a variety of veggies) the task seems a bit easier tbh.

So if there is something you are not giving yourself permission to do, just do it bud. Take someone up on their offer to help you clean. Buy that fruity toothpaste. It’s okay to have 5 of the same shirt. Make your life as easy as possible, friend.

I hear you on the drinking. Even if my mouth is so dry it hurts I sometimes find it hard to drink. Carrying the water bottle is super important because I want to take advantage of any time when I’m wanting to.

Edit: one more thing - how is your work about heat safety? I work in industrial maintenance/construction (but not doing the construction, mostly testing) and a lot of the safety program is about weather including heat. Do you feel comfortable asking? They might have suggestions and if you make them aware it might be like, “oh yeah no one said they were hot so we didn’t think about it…”

Yo, those shirts for fishing fucking rule, mine has a hood and I love being so protected and breezy. I wish it didn’t advertise that it is intended for fishing on it but 🤷‍♀️

Thank you, I crave silence so letting myself experience it isn’t an issue. Nor going against what society wants from me.

Thank you, I was being a bit silly there. I understand I can’t do that. I hope you can recover.

I do many of the things you listed and I also treat it being too hot as inclement weather. By that I mean I plan outdoor activities for the cooler parts of the day and come inside if it’s getting too warm. I don’t plan activities where there is no shade. I’ve made the mistake of going to the beach and spending the next day feeling really sick from all the UV.

ETA: sorry if this is super obvious, but it wasn’t to me: some places are just more pleasant in the summer than others. My backyard fucking sucks most of the time, except this little screened in hut I have because I live in a swamp. Lots and lots of mosquitos. But if I drive half an hour away I can walk along a river with lots of wind and no bugs (but also little shade so I need to plan ahead.)

I also carry an insulated water bottle with me, one that had a straw but also seals completely. I don’t care that I look like a trend following white woman, I need to have water with me in case I am able to force myself to drink (I also struggle with that lol?)

Lol

Certified weed autist

My post was very much a tl;dr - it’s been like 7 years since I started realizing something was wrong at work. I upped and left a really good job for something simpler, somehow ended up in the same role a year later (LMAO) but somewhere that made me yearn for the problems of the previous job. ADHD “diagnosis” 3 years ago (GP gave me meds), autism/ADHD diagnosis via assessment process last year.

Vaugeness was less of an issue at the old job because roles and responsibilities were more clearly defined. Here they are not, and the scope of my responsibility is so much more.

Just mentioning that it’s been a hell of a journey, mostly so others who read it won’t beat themselves up for taking long to figure it out.

I’m sorry to hear that, it’s a very hard thing.

That sounds tough.

I wanted to add that it’s maybe a blessing in disguise that you figured this out so young. I was hospitalized as a tween and in my 20s and it was brushed off. I guess I skipped the mental breakdown in my 30s and made it to my 40s. I wonder how much easier life could have been if I had known about the neurodivergence when I was younger.

I’m sorry you are struggling and I hope you find a way to manage your illnesses. I def learned pushing myself from my family and also living with food and housing insecurity. It’s hard to unlearn, but we’ll get there :)

Thank you lol. This is a wonderful space (Even if it’s not the forum you are talking about)

Thank you!

I don’t think it will be too hard to limit screen time to much less than when I was working. I can’t even look at my home computer right now and while I am typing this on my phone, I have limited capacity to look at a screen. Good to know that is something I should try and keep up.

I have a giant garden that needs a lot of work I’m hoping to spend tonnes of time out there tidying up once I can peel myself from the couch. I am also hoping to spend time with pottery.

Thank you!

I know the root of my burnout is communication challenges and I am working with an occupational therapist to find accommodations that will help. My work is inherently stressful (large infrastructure projects) but what makes it unbearable for me is when directions change or decisions change and I seem to be the only one who doesn’t understand it. Or when people refuse to answer my questions as a way of telling me they don’t need something anymore.

I am also unable to stop (I ran one marathon once and didn’t notice that I was bleeding though my shoe good times lol). I’m going to have to build in rules or routines that force me to stop because I don’t know if I will ever learn my body cues. I’ve done quite a lot of meditation and yoga and love hanging out in float tanks/isolation pods but those just help me dissociate more lol.