There is only one person I know who cancels the repeat bleep from unacknowledged messages from the pager at work. It's really fucking annoying. Every minute maybe, a loud bleep. She's probably autistic huh? I mean, I like her, she very sarcastic. Another clue. Liking, not sarcasm. But has anyone researched allistic vs autistic people in use of sarcasm? I'm not even bothering Google scholar. #Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @autistics #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
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I’m on Dad’s side now.
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That’s another NT binary that isn’t, abusers and victims - they’re all NT, no-one escapes, they all pass it on, being a victim frees them up morally, and they are all both at once. From outside the cycle, from outside of NT world, only the famous mega-abusers stand out.
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The rest are all both, sort of equally.
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This video by @hmm_cook on #AutisticBurnout, its patterns, and how to recover from it is very insightful and I think all #Autistic people should see/hear it. I myself am going through this now re: life and my creative project.
There's so much subtle ableism and capitalist "normal" expectations everywhere, but sadly autistic people are gaslit into believing it and our experiences of it aren't real (it very much is) or "overreacting". @autistics
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1081 , Tuesday 13/10/2026
Tuesday started at around 07:30 with breakfast & chores leading the way.
I pushed myself to alter the spacing on the radiator shelf brackets & also changed the fixings to make it easier to change if the need ever arises.
Also moved our smart meter display so that it is less obtrusive while still being easy to check.
Then hit the Starfield for the afternoon.
Final Thoughts.
We have had internet problems for most of the day, initially it looked like an external problem but although all the kit checks out & I can ping things like the BBC we are still struggling to get thru to most sites. I wonder if it is a DNS problem & more to the point I wonder what caused it!
Will have to see what is what in the morning.
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! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
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@autistics #ActuallyAutistic still on vacation…
…but watching the board President and Vice President are squandering an opportunity to get institution leadership to actually do something to benefit our constituents…
…all because they are so egocentric that that it’s more important to hear/see their own opinions words out in the ether…
…so now i need to come back after vacation and knock their heads together…
…the angry people pleaser is leveling up and these asshats aren’t ready
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1083 , Thursday 15/10/2026
Thursday started quite late at just before 8am.
Breakfast & chores were followed by a multitude of small jobs including making some inroads into the mounds of paperwork that ‘decorate’ my study/den.
Started to watch 2 movies today & failed to get past the first 30 minutes of either of them, not because I did not like them but more because I simply could not concentrate on them.
I ended up playing Starfield - not that that will surprise anyone.
Final Thoughts.
The new router is due tomorrow so that should make it a day of enjoyment but also of frustration, nothing seems to go to plan these days!
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! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@autism101/117446970431539239
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic as soon as she crawled out of the woodwork, i thought she was just seeking renewed relevance…
…but i guess this is the nicer way to say that
I went shopping for a friend. They needed very different things from what I usually buy, and my grocery store is huge.
I had to search for several items and now I‘m in complete overload. 🥴
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1084 , Friday 16/10/2026
Friday started early, as Fridays tend to. At the gym at just past 07:10 for an exhausting session if truth be told.
I ordered the new router for today & thus postponed all but the lightest tasks in anticipation of its arrival. However it only turned up at just before 5pm, far to late to do anything other that take it out of its box & assemble the mains plug.
Pizza along with a couple of eps of Babylon 5 helped rescue something from the day.
Final Thoughts.
A frustrating day & the late arrival of the router now means that Saturday will be a much busier day than I originally intended! Hopefully the AI driven ‘quick setup’ on the router will surpass all my expectations & actually be just that … quick!
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
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Starting to wish I had the spoons or the focus to write a long one, spelling out for the majority how their deflective need to punish is forever undermining their dreams, that they are constantly shooting themselves in the foot.
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It’s a #Hockey story today, how the #MapleLeafs coach let last evening’s game slip away because he was punishing a quarter of the offensive talent for an early scrup. Of course I have no idea what earlier pain the coach was paying off, no-one ever does, but maybe he was biased that way, felt like he was, “doing something,” got a drop of dopamine for it - but lost the game.
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I mean, these are #Hockey people saying this, not some
elbow patch liberals. Even the hammerheads of hockey could see that one. 😘💜
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I feel like it wouldn’t be impossible to write a whole book of examples like that, right up to and including world wars. Trivers put it down to self deception late in life, but I suppose that’s a trait that varies across neurotypes.
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Here's your periodic reminder that you can turn off the beep on your microwave! 🙉
Search your model online. It's usually done by holding down 1 or 0 or something for a bunch of seconds.
Edit: my condolences to those who have dials and a bell that can't be turned off 😔
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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1085 , Saturday 17/10/2026
Saturday started at around its’ usual time of 07:30.
Breakfast & chores were done then I started work on getting the new router set up.
Happily my diagnosis of a fault with the previous router help up & we are now reconnected to the world at large.
There are still a few things to setup but they can wait until tomorrow.
We had a fried chicken takeaway for tea accompanying a movie from the 90’s - ‘A time to kill’ a brilliant legal drama that both of us found riveting!
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day at all, I do love a bit of I.T. config work.
Off to my late MiLs tomorrow to get a final read of the meters, with the promise of a roast Sunday lunch on the way back!
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
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A love letter to Bill Shatner
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Dammit, Bill, I’m a phone guy, I’m not a doctor. Nobody told me there’s different sorts of people. They never even made me understand they didn’t like me. I didn’t know there are people that people don’t like for no good reason at all.
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I’m sorry I thought I was one of
them and thought I wasn’t supposed to like certain people too.
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It must have gotten so tired, people laughing about Trek, think they’re being clever and original when the whole point was all that ‘60s stuff was comedy, you all laughing at society, at them. Trek, remember the Avengers? James Bond - a Canuck made a billion dollars parodying Bond, already a parody.
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Speaking of Canucks, have you stared down Jim Carrey for his Kirk impression? I’m sorry I laughed at that shit, I was one of the oblivious idiots described above too. BTW, that Suck it Picard thing was funny. Is it better if I laughed at that too (despite who provided the ride)?
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I make jokes about the CPAP ads and bacteria from outer space, but I ain’t mad or punching you with them. For the record, I saw a bit of, was it a Movie of the Week thing, a horror movie about spiders? I thought you weren’t unrecognizable, but you seemed understated and entirely natural. It was early in the film, no spiders yet.
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Anyway, I’m sorry I added to the noise. You seem perfectly fine. Be well. 💜
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11 Signs You Have Traumatic Intelligence,
This is giving me a lot to think about.
Many of the signs, if not all, feels like its from my autism. So am I like this because of trauma and not autism?
Are many autistics like this?
My teenage daughter who doesn't have a traumatic house hold acts like this a lot. But could she have developed this intelligence through the trauma of a mixed middle-school school?
This intelligence also reminds me of Buddhism, which I practice. We train our brains to dig deeper. Though, I think I've been like this since I was a child, way before I've been practicing.
Lots to meditate about :-)
Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 1086 , Sunday 18/10/2026
Sunday started after a nice lazy lie in at about 08:00.
Breakfast was followed, in a laconic & easy way by a trip over to my MiLs to read the meters, managed the electric meter easy enuf but the gas meter was one of the new smart meters that you need a degree in quantum mechanics & a passing interest in electronic espionage to crack! So I will have to hit the interweb, fight past the AI & try & find the relevant instructions for another go next week.
We stopped off at one of our local eateries on the way home for Sunday lunch - steak & kidney pie with a mound of buttery mash spuds & roasted veg for me & a roast chicken dinner for Mrs S. We both enjoyed our lunch enormously.
Back hope & while Mrs S did some ironing I finished off the basic router config, everything is now connected (even the Hue hub that needed some stern words & a hard reset to bring into line!)
Final Thoughts.
Not a bad day but life used to be so much simpler - for instance one could read ones utility meter easily off the rotating dials!
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! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
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