@actuallyautistic do any of my autistic co-groupies have any tips for not losing weight over December / Christmas? The extra stress makes it harder to eat good portions for regular meals and my usual snack routine gets a knock too. I did manage to grab a small bowl of full fat ice-cream last night, which is not my usual supper, but seemed a reasonable compromise. Any other ideas?
@kkffoo@actuallyautistic Not in any healthy ways. Put in more calories than you burn...for me that means unhealthy junk that after a short time makes me feel like shit.
I check my weight every morning so i know how i should treat my days.
part of my unmasking has been letting go of the need for full sentences and/or paragraphs. CWs and tone tags have been like a "starter kit." so now sometimes if i can't find the right way to word something in a sentence, i will seriously just format it like metadata.
@Susan60@arcana@actuallyautistic Everyone* is convinced (myself included) that they can do everything themselves. We're not ALL wrong, but most of us are.
*literally everyone, but i'm saying that figuratively.
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Question for those for whom suicidal ideation, passive or active, is common:
Imagine yourself in a stable/good place, with minimal ideation, you feel safe. And then you are confronted with a possible terminal illness diagnosis. Do you find yourself feeling a bit…relieved at the possibility? Almost as if “it’s about time”?
@punishmenthurts@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic I have been kind of struggling with this too. I dont think that i like the notion of my personality or approach to life being considered a 'disability', but i can't dispute that i seem divergent from what i would consider 'normal' people. That both of those opinions seem to marry up pretty closely with how NT's view things, i kind of just mentally throw my hands up with an exasperated 'whatever'.
Generally though, I don't socialize. There are maybe a half-dozen people that I engage with regularly, usually on the phone, and since there's only one other person on the call names aren't really necessary.
@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic At times my empathy button seems broken; I will approach many emotionally charged events with clinical detachment, always expecting that I can just react emotionally "later", but I never seem to get around to that point.
There are other times, though, that I can't handle. Like, I can watch horror movies and whatever entrails appear on screen, but watching a surgical show or footage of an accident it turns my stomach.