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gsuberland, 13 days ago to random

the #emfcamp swap shop has new policies

Sign in the swap shop that says "no orphaned sourced. do not leave radioactives unattended. do not supply the spider nuclear program. it has been 1 days since the furry nuclear program was dispatched"

NunavutBirder, 24 days ago to random

A bit of a strange day for me, carpentry wise. I finished framing the floor for the addition and hit pause. I went in to see what I’d take on and was suddenly overwhelmed by it all. Realizing there’s still so much to do, and realizing it’ll be worse come sealift when so much arrives and I’ll be racing winter. And overcome with the feeling I’m just not good enough.

I am, and this will pass. But two days in and I just gave up on the day.

Tomorrow. #CabinLife

littlescraps, 1 month ago to random

#actuallyautistic so yeah struggling with childhood trauma like we all of do. Because mom said she loved me but really didn’t love me who I really was, realized I have been applying this “rule” to my relationship with hubby. Just had a nice trip with him and we had a breakthrough. He doesn’t verbalize much, & I now know due to autism I apply rules to behavior & have applied wrong rule to his reactions. Ack, so lost at this point, like I don’t know what people mean, ack, but I thought I did.

Alice, 1 month ago to random

Given the uncontrollable urge for reply guys to reply, I’m going to take a "Sent from my iPhone" approach to Mastodon and end all of my posts with "This is just a joke."

This is just a joke.

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

I love when the public bathroom toliet is in a fully enclosed little room, so no one can look at my feet or peak through the cracks. Stay away you bathroom voyeurs!

littlescraps, 1 month ago to Software

#software ok all the computer people I see posting things I mostly don’t understand but find interesting. Cleaning up and don’t know if these software disks should go to good home or the trash.

Dell drivers 2006
Gateway Microsoft works 8.0 and 8.5

VeryBadLlama, 2 months ago to random

starting a cleaning service for people with ADHD. I won’t be doing any of the actual cleaning, I’ll just be calling you at random times to tell you I’m on my way to your house and I’ll be there in about 45 minutes

littlescraps, 2 months ago to random

#caturday this is a close up of jack .

vicgrinberg, 2 months ago to random

I love passing by wind turbines. They are such an essential solarpunk element to me. Seeing one feels like a sign of hope: a different future is possible.

rebekka_m, 3 months ago to ADHD

Hypothesis to be discussed with the @actuallyautistic:

The high prevalence of #ADHD in Autistics might be just the symptoms of an overstimulated life, misunderstood communications and lots of trauma that led to cPTSD.

Would also explain why ADHD meds very often don't work for Autistics - but certain antidepressants do.

What do you think?

autism101, 3 months ago to actuallyautistic

Let’s talk tags on clothing. I hate them and they annoy me to no end. And even if I cut them off, the tiny bit remaining always manages to touch me and I hate it. 😩

Do tags bother you?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

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littlescraps, 4 months ago to animals

#dogsofmastodon here is moose meeting one of the locals he is named after. I was upstairs and saw them sniffing each other nose to nose … but couldn’t get a picture of it.

A moose eating a tree while multiple dogs are scurrying around barking like maniacs while that poor moose is just trying to enjoy its breakfast
Big moose behind fence and curly haired large dog that now looks small in comparison is looking back at their human seeming to say, can you believe the nerve of this moose being there?

ncrav, 4 months ago to Rabbits

"Training my beaverness"
#bunny #rabbit #bunniesOfMastodon #rabbitsOfMastodon

Lua chewing/eating a wooden box

littlescraps, 4 months ago to random

#winter ok I am SOOOO over winter right now. So much snow my snowblower can’t throw over the piled up snow . Have shoveled off my roof. Stupid city is not clearing snow they just keep grading which just makes every road skinnier and now it is -10 Fahrenheit. Normally they would have come months ago and used a loader and dump trucks. No way a fire truck could make it in our circle. Frickn GOP. Worst snow response in 23 years I have lived here.

rckenned, 4 months ago to random

There should be job roles for burnt out Staff+ engineers to hang back, burn down the bug list, write tests, fix documentation, clean up alerts, and other assorted housekeeping. Stuff that’s impactful and soothing to engineers who’ve lost the motivation to lead from the front but still find satisfaction in those sorts of tasks.

Danpiker, 5 months ago to random

video/mp4

Ruth_Mottram, 5 months ago to random

Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing year? It should be. I'll start.

mayaisloading, 5 months ago to random

My toxic trait is being emotionally attached to the email address I created when I was 11 on an unreliable provider even tho at this point it's in every spam list possible.

littlescraps, 6 months ago to random

#actuallyautistic is it possible that we feel the trauma of betrayal more than Neurotypicals? Like some us hear more extremely or light hurts our eyes more … cause I am really feeling my betrayals really hard right now (guessing it is mother dying.. that is not allowing me to stuff them). But I don’t get over major betrayal… once you cross that… you will never be let in. Course I don’t let too many in enough to bleed me that bad… but damn my family really fucked me up a lot.

sahat, 6 months ago to actuallyautistic

I'm in a state of pain tonight. It has a long story of origin. It is a residue from the twenty years of childrearing as a single mother, facing ableism and poverty, facing sexism and facing the devastating effect of doing it alone. I somehow let go of this layer of constraint around my deepest and most difficult bits of pain. I realize, I put it there in order to compartmentalize and in order to be present for my son. I was afraid I could be overwhelmed by it .Unable to deliver my attention and devotion as I felt was needed.
This is not nice but it is new. I feel a freedom to let go. It has to do with my kid being in a state of well-being and being on a good path. In addition to being not a kid anymore. I don't know what else to do but breathe right now, and talk. Or rather write. I have been doing that all day.
Just wanted to let you know. As this community has always given me a feeling of support and of not being alone with the challenges of a neurodivergent life. As I was writing, I felt it was necessary that every woman that goes through this lets out these sounds of pain and of torment, and as publicly as possible. We don't have much space for this, as we are beeing needed and that will be a constant for many years. And it keeps the truth away from whomever wants to ignore it. It does not serve us to be silent. Even if it may seem a survival choice at the time.
Letting go of my fight suit. admitting to the despair and how lost and alone I felt amidst mounting pressure. Letting go of treading carefully as not to scare my child. As not to provoke retaliation from any part of the system in a way that I would not be prepared for.
Letting go of a pressure that has been in my neck for twenty years and wreaked havoc in my body. It's a bit of a flood coming out of of me. Breaking my heart or rather the constraints around it towards feeling the full truth of the emotion.
@actuallyautistic

theautisticcoach, 6 months ago to actuallyautistic

I'm often asked how to "stop my meltdowns" by the #ActuallyAutistic community.

There are no shortcuts. There are no hacks. Once a meltdown starts, it cannot be turned off. Meltdowns ARE NOT tantrums.

They are the result of your needs not being met.

What are your needs?

@actuallyautistic

sahat, 6 months ago to actuallyautistic

I once had a relationship with an AuDHD male. He had a certain trait. It's not very common, but I have heard from people that experience this.
It was scary and it ended the realtionship. He used to get into a form of meltdown where he would be uncontrollably agitated.. Rage, despair, IDK what to call it. It looked like anger. And then he would loose the memory about what had transpired. He did not recall what he had said or how he had behaved. It must be hard to live with this, cus I am sure, it wrecks relationships, period. Now I am curious, have any of you this trait, has anyone experienced this, either in my role or in his? I would be interested to hear more about this. I recently talked to him after many years of silence. It brought this all up. He didn't know about his neurodivergence at the time. And it scared the heck out of him to be hearing me describe, what took place, when he stopped having memory.
@actuallyautistic