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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 987 , Saturday 11/07/2026
Saturday started around 07:15 & not without a struggle, I really did not want to get up but noises both in our house & next door forced me out of bed.
It’s been a Lovely day weather wise & it encouraged me to get my chores done, clean the upstairs floors & then this afternoon reinstall linux (in the shape of Kubuntu) on my MBP.
We had a chinese takeaway for tea & watched ‘Night at the Museum’ or rather Mrs S did, I kinda watched it in passing as I messed with the laptop.
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day, I even made some inroads in clearing out the front bedroom - there is still a lt of junk to shift before we can decorate but progress has been made!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
Project unmasking: I've noticed I look way less to people's eyes when it's my turn to talk. I think I used to try to maintain eye contact even during my turn unless I really had to think at the same time. Now I take off-time even during casual conversations and stop the eye contact almost completely during more demanding work chatter. When others talk, I return to the eye contact but I actually like it. Unless I have to process somewhat more demanding incoming information, then off I go again.
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 829 , Tuesday 03/02/2026
Tuesday started at just after 7am.
It’s been a grey & drab day, the British winter returning to the way I remember it as a kid!
Its been one of those quiet days today with nothing to really diffentiate it.
Well apart from chocolate brownies & custard for dessert at tea time!
Final Thoughts.
I am just so overwhelmed by world events, I saw a thing on Fartarge faking a photo op with a kid with brain cancer, turns out it’s AI slop.
All this *spreads arms wide* is filling up what little space I have spare in what passes for my brain has me avoiding almost all other human interactions.
Where once I would have commented on a toot now I don’t, it takes a physical effort to keep in touch with folk.
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
EDIT: fixed a typo.
Edited 280d ago
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 856 , Monday 02/03/2026
Monday started at around 07:30.
Mrs S was off to the off to the office so I had the house to myself!
It’s been a reasonably quiet day, the sun showed its face around lunchtime so after lunch I had another hour doing decorating prep work in the box room.
Spent the rest of the afternoon chasing baddies around medieval Bohemia.
Final Thoughts.
I’ve discovered that topping my Costco choc chip cookies with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream is a lovely way to enjoy them! Sadly my waistline will not agree!
In other news Sophie mog has now got a new item in her daily schedule, she will come & sit on the arm of my chair with me for an hour or so in the early afternoon, just prior to her main afternoon nap & allow me to stroke between her ears - her 2nd most favourite thing after being brushed.
This is an agreeable arrangement for both of us. 😊
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
For those of you who may be interested.
After ten days of staring intently at the letterbox. Our noble hero's motionless vigil was finally rewarded, as the blue badge of parking happiness finally arrived on his doormat. Slowly he creaked into life and bent down to pick it up. Dislodging no small amount of dust, several spiders, who had taken his stillness as a gift from their web making Gods and one somewhat confused pigeon, who had perched on his head, thinking he was a statue. (Because, no matter how impossible, or improbable, there is always one.)
OK, perhaps it didn't happen quite like that. But, finally, religiously looking for and checking to see if it had arrived yet, has paid off and I can stop worrying about whether the various emails telling me that it was going to arrive, were actually some sort of mistake and that it was never going to. No, now I can start worrying instead, that getting one at all is some sort of blunder and I will be getting a demand soon for it to be returned.
For which the only thing I can say is, why, brain, why?
Brain: Because it is how I roll. Clearly from past experience, it is a possibility.
Despite the fact that something like this, hasn't happened, far more times than it has.
Brain: Question not, how the system operates. Oh, and have a side order of, suddenly being confronted by the confirmation of how much more disabled you are now, and likely to stay that way, than you were before Christmas and having to come to terms with that too.
Damn! Stupid contradictory brain, just one of them would have been enough. 😒
I think with my new personal assistant I will use another strategy than I did with the ones in the past. Instead of explaining that I have a different neurology and all that, because none of them has a neurodiversity affirming perspective on autism I will go for
"Yeah, I am like an alien, a creature from another universe. Expect the unexpected. I am crazy in the right way and we will have a lot of fun together. Let's go."
Something like that.
Edited 121d ago
Works of course also for self diagnosis/realization!
“Autistic rest is the recovery your nervous system needs after the constant work of navigating a world built for a different kind of brain. For many late-diagnosed autistic adults, rest has become something you believe you have to earn through productivity, because masking taught you that your worth is measured in output. It is not. Rest is not a reward you unlock by finishing the list. It is a basic need, and your need for it is higher than most people around you, not lower.“
https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/autistic-rest
#ActuallyAutistic (means only the author is autistic) #autism @autistics
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 993 , Friday 17/07/2026
Friday started bright & early & I managed to get my squirrelly ass down to the gym.
Tried the new treadmill - not a fan, (which it lacks, a sad oversight given the current temperatures!).
It’s been a productive day in small ways.
The coffee machine has been cleaned & descaled, the dishwasher has had a cleaning cycle & a variety of other minor tasks.
I got some new shoes for round the house yesterday & they are wonderfully light & comfortable!
Pizza for tea with cider to wash it down while we continued with our Babylon 5 fest - currently in the first quarter of series 2.
Final Thoughts.
It has been another pleasant summer day here in deepest, darkest Yorkshire & while I have not achieved anything significant progress has been made!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic far easier said than done
RE: https://mstdn.social/@archaeology/116942317256778474
My point is, what is the point of trying to show the violence is forever except to justify it today? What good does it do us to think that it’s forever?
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#Evolution #Psychology #NTPsychology #Philosophy #ActuallyAutistic #ND #AuDHD @autistics
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 995 , Sunday 19/07/2026
Sunday started after a nice lay in at about 8am.
It’s been a mostly quiet day, a few chores & then an afternoon spent catching up on some of Mrs S’s shows.
Huntsman pie and salad for tea, with our favourite strawgogs & ice cream for dessert!
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day at all - my back has forgiven me, which is a good thing because there are a few jobs to do next week that will need me to abuse it again!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
Hey autistic community. I got a question about autism and HSP. I remember a discussion on the fedi, that HSP is an ableist invention and that HSP actually are on the autistic spectrum. But I don't have any clues about that, nor links to the old discussion. Research on the web always results in speaking of both of two different things. I am curious, what's your take on ASD vs HSP?
#actuallyautistic #autism #hsp #hypersensitivity @autistics
What "mindful eating" means for me as an AuDHD person and what it doesn't mean
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 996 , Monday 20/07/2026
Monday & I reluctantly got my ass down to the gym. Not a bad gym session, I am slowly settling into the current difficulty level on the bike, I am happy with my walk rate on the treadmill, I need a couple more weeks at 5.8 km/h before I take it up to 5.9 - I don’t want to stress my heart too much.
I’m firmly stable with the weights, my right arm was hurting after previous sessions but that is now passing as I get stronger.
A relaxed rest of the day after doing my chores.
Chicken skewers & salad for tea, with, yes you guessed it, strawberries & ice-cream for dessert.
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day at all.
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
🏳️🌈🇵🇸someone the other day posted about their RSD being triggered by losing followers and tbh, I felt that. especially because we seem to lose a whole bunch of people whenever we post about certain topics that are personal and close to our heart, for example our plurality. I try not to let it to get me but I can't really help it. it's a difficult experience. just wondering if anyone else in the ADHD, autistic, and/or plural communities can relate?
(This reaction is about the scene, not CarlP's post.)
Most misunderstood—some dismissed—this as a trauma/panic response or attack, the truth is it was an autistic meltdown.
#Autism #Meltdown #ActuallyAutistic #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1017 , Monday 10/08/2026
Monday started early, as Mondays do. Down to the gym then back for a quick breakfast before we drove across to my late MiL’s place to collect the final odds & sods & let the clean & clear crew in.
One of the delights of the trip across is seeing the glorious countryside, I shall miss doing this trip on a regular basis!
Then back home for a mega ‘The Capture’ Season 3 fest to take Mrs S’s mind off what was happening to her childhood home!
Had a naughty takeaway for tea, we were going to go out for a pub meal but I was just too tired!
Final Thoughts.
Well that’s it, it has taken far longer than I ever imagined but my parents-in-law’s house is now being prepped for sale.
The crew will be there tomorrow so we need to go over tomorrow afternoon to collect the keys but then it is done! All that will be needed then is for us to keep am. Eye on the place until it is sold.
What will we do with our weekends!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic many an asshole in the past has learned his at their peril...
…and there's a lot more in the present and future who are going to find out as well
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 936 , Thursday 21/05/2026
I was aiming to get up a bit later this morning but thanks to next door I was awake at just gone 6!
I really hope the new neighbours are ones that like a bit of a later start!
It’s been an easy day of the usual chores followed by some time configuring my various ships in Elite Dangerous.
Final Thoughts.
Really struggling to concentrate on stuff of a morning at the moment - brain will not get into gear!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves
✊I wonder if Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is a lot more prevalent in my life than I realized.
I hate (I don't use this word lightly) being questioned on my choices. It feels intensely emotionally painful, even if the questioner is being curious or trying to understand instead of accusing or blaming.
I have a graveyard of unfinished projects, business ideas, etc. I wonder if, and what part, RSD plays in my difficulties finishing and launching a thing publicly.
I definitely stress over details, worrying about how a thing I do will be perceived, how it could be judged, etc.
Does that resonate with anyone else? What's your experience with RSD?
#ActuallyAutistic #RejectionSensitiveDysphoria #RSD #AuDHD #Neurodivergent