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16 May 2025, 2:02 am

I'll need to take my jacket with me today
It can get a bit chilly near that mersey river even on warm days it can catch you out

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16 May 2025, 2:52 am

I think there's some kind of "internal robot" in me. Like when I'm tasked to do something repetitive, that "robot" off-loads my mind from it and then I completely disconnect from the world and live in my own abstractions. I'm completely unaware of what's happening around me and I always get some kind of stun when my mind reattaches (i.e. somebody speaks to me)

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16 May 2025, 4:41 am

The pulley system
What a boon

I don't know where we'd be without it

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16 May 2025, 5:11 am

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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16 May 2025, 5:53 am

Anyone else afraid of physically reliving the past? I mean I'm all into nostalgia and everything but going back to reliving a time in my life that is gone just makes me feel weird.

For example, say if I had to move back in to my parents house tomorrow, unemployed and single again. I'd feel like it's 2012 again, except since then I had accomplished a lot and gone forward. So I'd be reliving 2012, except with no mother there any more, and with memories of what I had accomplished since that would suddenly feel meaningless because I'd just be back at square 1.

It's why if something bad happened to me, like God forbid my partner died (he's a lot older than me), I don't think I'd want to move back in to my parents home. I'd rather continue my independence. I just wouldn't want to go back to the status quo. Do you get what I mean?

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16 May 2025, 6:09 am

Quote:

Undiagnosed Autism: Everyone thinks you are a bit of a weirdo

Diagnosed Autism: Tell people you are autistic and they look confused and say you look normal.

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16 May 2025, 6:21 am

NotFerris wrote:

Quote:

Undiagnosed Autism: Everyone thinks you are a bit of a weirdo

Diagnosed Autism: Tell people you are autistic and they look confused and say you look normal.

Another example;

Non-obvious autism in public: People still look at you like you're weird
If you act autistic in public: People still look at you because you look too normal to be 'disabled'

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16 May 2025, 6:53 am

Tamaya wrote:

Living In the past is for people who are unsatisfied with the present.

No need to return to 2012 we've lived it, learned from it.

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16 May 2025, 6:58 am

Tamaya wrote:

I think it is healthy that you don't wan to relive 2012 or any other distant year from your past.

You have achieved your independence now and you naturally don't wish to go backwards, which is a completely normal way to view these things.

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16 May 2025, 7:00 am

jamie0.0 wrote:

Living In the past is for people who are unsatisfied with the present.

No need to return to 2012 we've lived it, learned from it.

I'm glad that works for you but sadly for a lot of us that's not how trauma and autism works.

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16 May 2025, 7:09 am

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16 May 2025, 9:08 am

^ M^e₂.

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16 May 2025, 9:36 am

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16 May 2025, 11:13 am

Being on this site makes me think about time zones. Three quarters of the world is ahead of me. It's like I'm always losing and I can never catch up

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16 May 2025, 1:55 pm

The big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh,
The ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh.
Oh, the big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh
On the last day of September
Ally ally oh! Ally oh!
On the last day of September

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16 May 2025, 2:09 pm

Me at the supermarket:

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