25 Dec 2017, 9:34 am
fluffysaurus wrote:
It's Christmas time so I treated myself to fish finger sandwiches for lunch the other day. I bought one of the little boxes of 10 as I've no freezer. I had five on day one, fried 
and on day two when I tipped the remaining ones out of the box, THERE WERE SIX! 
I stayed happy for hours, an extra fish finger.
I do get depressed sometimes but I also get enormous amounts of pleasure from little things normal people barely register.
and on day two when I tipped the remaining ones out of the box, THERE WERE SIX! I stayed happy for hours, an extra fish finger. I do get depressed sometimes but I also get enormous amounts of pleasure from little things normal people barely register.
I love that too! This happened to me last week when I found an 11th chicken Mcnugget in my pack of 10.
25 Dec 2017, 10:55 am
goldfish21 wrote:
Heh, just a thread I thought I'd post after a brief conversation at a dinner party before a Grinch who stole Christmas performance by a group of local drag queens. (It was fantastic, btw.)
Anyways, conversation went to a story where my honesty cost me $ and my friend Matt said "Always lie to cops. I lie to cops all the time." and I replied with "Yeah, well, I'm neurologically predisposed to automatically responding with my honest answer. Sometimes I have it well under control, but that time it cost me $x." (when a little white lie would have avoided a fine.) Matt's response? "That sounds terrifying." lol I'd imagine in his line of work it would be for sure if he were to impulsively speak the truth vs. tell the little white lies that allow him to get away with all the things he does bending the rules for his business.
We paid our bills and headed over to the show, so I didn't elaborate on anything else.. but a bit later on I caught myself thinking "If that sounds terrifying to you, there is no f*****g way you could handle the rest of ASD," and that thought led me to feeling... Proud? Something like that. We're a pretty f*****g tough lot of people, really, for all that we endure day in and day out. Now if I ever catch myself getting frustrated and thinking "Why me?" I hope my next thought is "Because I can handle it." Others? Maybe not so much. But me? You? Us? We're made for this. We're tough enough to deal with every part of it and make it through life. I'd like to believe that's "Why me?" Because I can, I can deal with it while moving forward with other things in life - often utilizing my particular ASD strengths.
Just thought I'd share for anyone else who this message might resonate with for a little boost in spirits.
Anyways, conversation went to a story where my honesty cost me $ and my friend Matt said "Always lie to cops. I lie to cops all the time." and I replied with "Yeah, well, I'm neurologically predisposed to automatically responding with my honest answer. Sometimes I have it well under control, but that time it cost me $x." (when a little white lie would have avoided a fine.) Matt's response? "That sounds terrifying." lol I'd imagine in his line of work it would be for sure if he were to impulsively speak the truth vs. tell the little white lies that allow him to get away with all the things he does bending the rules for his business.
We paid our bills and headed over to the show, so I didn't elaborate on anything else.. but a bit later on I caught myself thinking "If that sounds terrifying to you, there is no f*****g way you could handle the rest of ASD," and that thought led me to feeling... Proud? Something like that. We're a pretty f*****g tough lot of people, really, for all that we endure day in and day out. Now if I ever catch myself getting frustrated and thinking "Why me?" I hope my next thought is "Because I can handle it." Others? Maybe not so much. But me? You? Us? We're made for this. We're tough enough to deal with every part of it and make it through life. I'd like to believe that's "Why me?" Because I can, I can deal with it while moving forward with other things in life - often utilizing my particular ASD strengths.
Just thought I'd share for anyone else who this message might resonate with for a little boost in spirits.
That made my day
25 Dec 2017, 6:00 pm
