Sustainability tip: instead of using and reusing plastic utensils, just go to your local thrift store and buy real forks, spoons, knives (they're usually 50 cents or at most a dollar each), and wash them. They're affordable enough you don't have to worry about losing them, no plastic leaching, and they don't break when you try to use them! #sustainability#forks#spoons#cutlery#lunch
Is there any comprehensive list of things that cause autistic burnout? It seems like more than just masking. Emotional abuse and any number of external stressors seem to contribute.
@JeremyMallin diagnosed #Autistic last year, the big revelation to me was how easy life is for everyone else. (Not that I think life is easy for anyone.)
But as an undiagnosed "high functioning" autistic, society has been gaslighting me into believing I can do what everyone else does because I'm as smart as they are.
So (using the #cutlery metaphor) I didn't know I was using knives. Only anti-empathy had ever been given me wrt how my attempts to meet social expectations were hurting me.