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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 768 , Thursday 04/12/2025

Thursday started stupidly early, Mrs S got up around 06:30 & despite the fact that I had had almost no sleep last night I got up to make her breakfast.

It’s been a busy day, I volunteered to let relatives know about our sad news while Mrs S went to her mums house to start tracking down the important documents we will need in the near future.

I’ve also been trying to get source an engineer to come & sort out our boiler - I have failed royally on that mission.
Our go to plumber did break cover just before 1pm with a text to say he would call us later but he hasn’t.
So tomorrow, nearly a week after the I found the fault, I have to start looking for a replacement plumber - I shall try the neighbours & try & get a recommendation in the morning. Friday is a pro day for this but needs must.
There is an emergency option, apparently Vaillant will come out & repair an out of warranty boiler - for a not insubstantial fee, but we may have to go down that route.

Final Thoughts.

I’m so tired, & anxiety levels are off the graph … I need to make some progress with this flipping boiler tomorrow or I will be hiding under the chair this time tomorrow!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 769 , Friday 05/12/2025

Friday started at a much more reasonable time of 07:30 which would have been a blessing if I had managed to get anything like a decent nights sleep. But the night was disturbed both by an utter inability to fall asleep & the cries of one of the children next door which went on for ages in the early hours of the morning.

The morning was spent perusing various tasks with my head all over the place.

I have finally got confirmation that we will have a new boiler fitted next Wednesday, so I can rest easy until Wednesday morning when hopefully I won’t have to chase this on the day!

Mrs S has been beavering away thru her mums paperwork to track down the critical papers necessary for the current circumstances.

This afternoon we chilled out & caught up on some of TV shows & treated ourselves to our usual Friday takeaway despite the cold!

Final Thoughts.

I am tired to my bones, but I think that things have moved forward satisfactorily today & I hope that that will allow me to sleep tonight!

Another busy day tomorrow, we’re off on a mission to start brining some order to my MiLs house now that she is gone. We’re also planning a last pre-Christmas trip to Costco™ & possibly get some other shopping in on our way home.

It will be nice to be in a house with the heating on, if only for a short while!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 770 , Saturday 06/12/2025

Saturday started at around 7am.

We had a quick breakfast then organised ourselves to go & make a start on sorting out my MiLs stuff.
This is such a huge job, but as with all huge jobs the approach to take is to take it step by small step.

There was also the opportunity to have a hot shower while we were there - oh the bliss of hot water to wash in!

We did achieve a decent amount today, but there will be many more days before it is all done.

We got home early this afternoon & having sorted out some of the paperwork & items that had been brought back we settled down & caught up with a couple of TV shows.

Final Thoughts.

How is it so much of adulting is not taught in school - there are so many things that one has to deal with (& I can’t even speak of all the extra duties that fall on the shoulders of those who have children to look after) with almost no training & very little in the way of help & guidance other than applying goodly amounts of common sense & a willingness not to drown in a sea of paperwork & asset management! Not to mention the mountains of rubbish that suddenly appear as if by magic!

I am clinging to the life raft of hope that is the promise of a new heating boiler being fitted on Wednesday!

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

Ello sweet and lovely Friendos

Another Toot that goes out especially to my #NeuroSpicy 🌶️ #ActuallyAutistic Friendos!

Yesterday I shared a bit of info on Autistic Burnout, as I realized that I am currently struggling with it... 😔 I got some very sweet replies, fankoos for that! and I noticed the Toot getting some likes and boosts.

For those who aren't familiar with #AutisticBurnout, I found some info that I'll share here, with the link to the original source.

> Recognizing the signs of autistic burnout is the first step towards recovery. Some common indicators include:

1. Increased difficulty with social interaction and communication
2. Heightened sensory sensitivities
3. Extreme fatigue that doesn’t improve with rest
4. Loss of executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, decision-making)
5. Increased meltdowns or shutdowns
6. Difficulty performing tasks that were previously manageable
7. Increased need for alone time or reduced tolerance for social situations
8. Feelings of overwhelm, hopelessness, or being “stuck”

🔗 https://neurolaunch.com/autistic-burnout-recovery/

There are many tips on this page on how to deal with the burnout in the "best way". There are many tips for different types of situations, and they could help you to find a way to recovery (or help you to find help for recovery).

Hope this helps a bit to those that, like me, feel like they're "not doing well" at the moment...

Much 💜 🫂 in your journey to recovery...

@autistics

Ello sweet and lovely Friendos

With a special wink towards my #NeuroSpicy 🌶️ friends, especially the #ActuallyAutistic ones...

I felt like I was struggling again with the dark monster (depression). But, after some DuckDuck scrolling, I came to a site where they had an article on "Autistic Burnout".

I read more and when I came to these bits, I felt like they had been writing about me!

I hope I used the right symbol to show that these texts are quoted, original link to the article is below the 3 quoted bits.

> Meltdowns and shutdowns, those intense reactions to overwhelming situations, might become more frequent. You could find yourself losing control over your emotions in situations you’d previously learned to manage. These episodes can be frightening and embarrassing, further fueling the desire to retreat from the world.

> Even your special interests, those passions that have always brought you joy and comfort, might lose their luster. The hyperfocus that once allowed you to dive deep into your favorite subjects now feels elusive, replaced by a fog of disinterest and fatigue. This loss can be particularly distressing, as these interests often form a core part of an autistic person’s identity and coping mechanisms.

> Self-care routines that once anchored your days might start to slip. Keeping up with personal hygiene, maintaining a tidy living space, or preparing healthy meals can feel like insurmountable tasks. The structure that once provided comfort now feels like a series of impossible demands.

🔗 https://neurolaunch.com/autistic-burnout-symptoms-adults/

I will definitely try to find more about this... But I wanted to share this, and if I find more info, I'll try to share!

Catch you all later folks!

💜 🍀 🐾

#PixysJourney

@autistics

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 799 , Sunday 04/01/2026

Sunday Started just after 8am after a nice long sleep (with the aid of ear plugs).

Usual Sunday with chores then breakfast then more chores.

I did my best to avoid doom scrolling but it’s hard to be completely cut off from the madness happening in the world.

We put the Christmas decorations away today, strictly speaking 12th night is tomorrow but Mrs S is back in work so today it was.

I say we, it was ,as usual, mostly house-elf work.

We had a nuked lasagna for tea because I really could not be bothered to do anything more adventurous.

Final Thoughts.

Back to normal for a couple of days then it’s my MiL’s funeral on Wednesday.

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 771 , Sunday 07/12/2025

Sunday started really early at just gone 6am.

The original plan was to go with Mrs S to her mums & await the folks from Careline to come & pick up their kit - which I deinstalled yesterday when I was there.
But the cold I had the other week has, mostly because we’re living without proper heating, gone to my chest & given me a hacking cough. I’m also overwhelmed by everything that has happened this week. Once upon a time I would have pushed on regardless & then had the inevitable implosion. But these days both myself & Mrs S recognise the signs that I’m struggling & so she insisted I stay at home & rest up.
To be fair the first half of the coming week is going to be full on & going Into it exhausted mentally & physically would be unwise.

I did however make us both breakfast & get all the chores done.

I decided to install the mini stereo system that I brought back from my MiLs yesterday.
It’s a Panasonic SA-PM71 SD & has quite the history - I originally bought it when my first Awia tower system died. When we got our first AVR in 2012 I gave this to my FiL because he had nothing to play CDs on.
It shows it pays to get quality kit sometimes though, this has been a well used piece of kit & it is still going strong!

I also dug out my old usb extended apple keyboard to use at my desk and there is so much space between the keys!
Also nice positive feel to them - might keep this setup now I've moved to my Mac mini and use my BT keyboard downstairs with the ipad.
(Update 21:43 - this is in fact what has happened)

Spent a pleasant morning tinkering with the new setup, the Panasonic mini system has an SD drive but it doesn’t have Bluetooth so the Mac is connected via the headphone jack to the aux input on the stereo. The sound is surprisingly good the speakers on the Panasonic are 3 way ones with a decent bass for such small speakers.

Mrs S got back around 1pm so we had a light lunch & settled down to relax & catch up on some TV shows.

Final Thoughts.

It’s not been a bad day, I desperately needed some alone time & this morning gave me that. Still got this flipping rag end of a cold though!

There is much to do tomorrow, but that is tomorrow’s problem!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 772 , Monday 08/12/2025

Monday started just before 7am. Well actually it started about an hour earlier with next door deciding that 6am is a good time to start vacuuming the house!

Got breakfast & then sorted out my chores before we had to go out & about.

We spent a couple of hours at my MiL's house working our way steadily thru the mountain of stuff = today I nearly cleared out 3 small draws, I got distracted by the contents of a cupboard - ADHD is a bugger sometimes that & the whole completionist side of my autism kicking & & trying to keep me at it for longer than we had.
We made a small but noticeable dint in the whole house clearing project today.

We treated ourselves to lunch at a pub about 10 minutes away on the edge of the moors that does nice food but is quite expensive. Sadly they were so busy serving the corporate Christmas lunch folk that my steak & stilton sandwich was barely warm by the time it finally arrived.

We headed back after lunch &, after dropping off some books at a local charity shop we made our way to the undertakers. The Undertaker was a nice friendly chap & was happy to provide us with the initial details. We are somewhat stuck at the moment waiting on the MEs sign off of my MiLs death certificate. Once all the paperwork is sorted then we can get that particular ball rolling.

Drove home in the pouring rain after a quick visit to Sainsgogs to pick up a few essentials.
Got home just after 4pm & had a coffee & some rather nice chocolate cake that 'fell' into our shopping trolly in the shops!

I did us a light tea which we ate while watching a movie called 'The Holdovers' from 2023 - which was a nice slow paced comedy drama & we both quite enjoyed it.

Final Thoughts.

I'm still struggling to keep all the nuts I'm juggling in the air - hopefully once the boiler is replaced on Wednesday that will be one less thing to worry about!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 773 , Tuesday 09/12/2025

Tuesday started around 07:30 although my sleep had been disturbed, as it often is these days, by the kids next door running amok!

The plan for today was to have a fairly easy day with the highlight being a quick trip to Costco™ to get a few last Christmas goodies and then an easy afternoon just going thru the stuff we brought home yesterday from my MiLs.

So much else has happened to day - first the plumber, who has been problematical form the start, call to ask if we would pay for the boiler up front as he couldn't get it from his normal supplier. Even weirder he wanted it by bank transfer to his personal a/c rather than his business a/c.
I've dealt with this guy for 14 years but I got to wondering why he needed £1400 paid into his personal a/c when we haven't had a written quote or anything.
My spider senses were tingling and I discussed it with Mrs S who thought it was strange too - so I texted him back to say that rather than doing it that way we would go with more expensive option of getting the diverter valve replaced to get us past Christmas then revisit the new boiler in the new year, giving everyone chance to catch their breath & ensuring no-one was out of pocket.
Bearing in mind that he took 4 days to get back to me last week the fact that within 2 minutes he was on the phone saying that it was ok, he was owed money by another customer and would call in that debt to get our boiler. He also insisted that he had moved stuff around to do the boiler tomorrow and that it was all ok now. He pinged me literally 3 minutes later to say that all was good vis a vis paying for the boiler. Very strange.

I don't know if I'm being overly paranoid but this all seems very dubious to me.

We will go thru with the deal now he apparently has the boiler and we are desperate for the heating to be fixed one way or another. However after all this palaver we will be looking for a new plumber to service our boiler from now on.

In other, better?, news we have had a number of phone calls today moving things forward with regards to laying my MiL to rest, no date for the funeral as of yet but hopefully we will know that by the end of the week.

We started a Star Wars fest today - we're doing in chronological order so the middle trilogy first.

Final Thoughts.

Ok after today's escapades by my 'friend' Simon the plumber I am stressed out of my tree. I'm imagining all kinds of things going wrong tomorrow and the whole situation has brought me perilously close to being totally overwhelmed.

Roll on Thursday!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 774 , Wednesday 10/12/2025

Wednesday started around 06:30.

Got breakfast for the both of us & then did a couple of chores before getting dug into prep for Simon coming to fit the boiler.

Long story short - boiler is fitted & working after a really long day.

We are in heated bliss!
Also so nice to have a hot shower in my own bathroom!

All the financial stuff seems to have gone ok so just waiting on various registration docs to appear!

We celebrated with a Chinese takeaway & a couple a ciders!

Final Thoughts.

That a song a massive weight off my mind - we are going to have a day of doing very little tomorrow, I need to refit the door to the w/c room where the boiler lives & also refit the cupboard doors on the unit where the boiler is installed. But other than that & making a couple of phone calls in regards to hating my MiL to rest we have the day to ourselves!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 800 , Monday 05/01/2026

Monday started at just past 7am, as we return to a more normal week.

Chores took up the first half of the day then I spent the afternoon agonising over what game to play on the PS5.
I go thru these periods when nothing I normally like ticks the box & I have to look for something new.

I tried ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’, but couldn’t get on with the turn based combat - I may well return to it at a later date though.

Gonna try ‘Kingdom Come:Deliverance 2’ because there are any number of excellent reviews for it. Lets see if it tickles my fancy.

We had a takeaway for tea but I didn’t really enjoy it. A return to more basic foods won’t do me any harm though.

Final Thoughts.

I think I’m struggling a little again with being overwhelmed. Prolly why I’m struggling to concentrate & do the things I normally love.

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 775 , Thursday 11/12/2025

Well the rarest of things happened this morning, I got up before Mrs S - only by moments, she got up as I stirred just before 8am.

She was surprised that she had slept so long while I had barely slept, maybe a couple of hours but I had spent most of the night tossing & turning.

I put the doors back on the small w/c we have the boiler in this boring & have gradually brought the room back to normality thru the day.

I did my daily chores along the way.

We got a lovely big chocolate cake for Christmas from Betty’s Tea shops which I have had to cut into slices & freeze so that it will keep until the festive day. I did however put by a couple of small slices to go with our coffee this afternoon & very nice it was too … none of this ‘chocolate flavoured’ cheap tat. Actual proper chocolate!

We had a Downton fest this afternoon, Mrs S seems happy to ease back on clearing her mums house & I am far too wise in her ways to argue that we need to keep up a steady pace because there is so very much to clear.
I did take down a photo of me & replace it with a rather beautiful glazed picture of a village (in Italy I think) that Mrs S has liked since she was young & earned a few brownie points by doing so.

Final Thoughts.

I am very down this evening, I think the stress of the last week is catching up with me & all the little things that normally drive me nuts but I stash away at the back of my mind are affecting me in a most disproportionate way.
I read earlier of a couple of my Peeps celebrating 44 years together and who are more in love now than when they met (and I sincerely wish them all the best!) our mere 25 years seems powers of magnitude less fulfilling. I can’t do or say anything, especially given current events. It’s just a case of knuckle down & mask for England.

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 776 , Friday 12/12/2025

Friday started around 07:15 after a most excellent nights sleep!

I intended on having a totally lazy day but I found any number of little jobs to do this morning.

Mrs S was busy too & things have progressed apace, we now have a provisional date in early January for the funeral, it seems it’s a …. busy time of year (popular seems like the wrong word entirely) for such things. Other arrangements are also falling into place.

However after lunch of beans on toast we settled down to an extended Downton fest!

We ordered a pizza & a burger from one of our favourite takeaways tonight, but they failed miserably, it took then more than an hour to deliver & then only because we chased it, when it arrived it was cold & my burger was not at all what I ordered.
If we ever order from them again it will be online (they are on Just Eat) so at least we can reflect our displeasure in a public forum!

Final Thoughts.

Well it was a good day until it wasn’t - the shambles of the takeaway delivery & then, as we watched ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ & we hit the sad bit near the end it was a little too soon, a little too fresh & we had to have a moment or ten.

We are watching the last of the movies tomorrow, I’ve not seen it & I sincerely hope they all make it to the end of the Grand Finale! (No spoilers please, it is what it is & I’m sure we will cope if the worst happens!)

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 777 , Saturday 13/12/2025

Saturday started early at just past 06:30 when Mrs S got up - this wouldn't be too bad if she didn't then have breakfast and then vanish to her room for an hour reading leaving me to get on with assorted tasks.

She went shopping just after 8am and I finished my chores then settled down with my book because I could not find the energy to do anything else.

We had a visit from Shaun this afternoon, an upmarket 'odd job man' and an acquaintance. We need some guttering repairing and Kim essentially banned from such activities since falling all of 3ft and tearing my achilles tendon clean in half!
No doubt the price he quotes will raise eyebrows, he is not a believer in 'mates rates'. But the work needs doing and he is fairly competent.

We caught up on a couple of Mrs S's shows when she got back this afternoon & then finished our Downton Abbey fest with the 'Grand Finale' movie. If yr a fan & haven't seen it I would definitely recommend it!

We had a Chinese takeaway again for tea, Mrs S having gone off the fired chicken place after a bit of a dodgy tummy after the last one last weekend.

Final Thoughts.

A quiet day, tomorrow is Christmas decorating day & writing chrimbo card day - we really should get our act into gear and write these cards at the start of December but somehow we never quite manage that!
A new edition to the list this year after a surprise card from a Masto friend, a most pleasant surprise at that! 😊

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 778 , Sunday 14/12/2025

Sunday started late - a nice long lie in after a good nights sleep had me awake at just gone 8am.

It's been a quiet day in.

Did my chores after breakfast and then wrote to my ex-Deputy Head / English Language teacher. We have kept in touch down the years - he once went to bat for me against my parents and I have never forgotten that act of kindness so I make sure I keep him upto date with where I am. I really don't know what he thinks of me, given many of my peers are people of substance and position.

After lunch we put up the Christmas tree and the decorations, while we had our 2 traditional Christmas starter movies - 'Muppet Christmas Carol' for Mrs S and 'The Nightmare before Christmas' for me.
We finished off with another movie we discovered last year that is becoming a firm favourite - 'Arthur Christmas'.

I wrote my Christmas cards and called my brother and sister to arrange Boxing Day visits.

We are having Christmas Day at home ... it will be the first Christmas Day ever that we have had no external commitments!

Final Thoughts.

I am struggling again, despite the overall load easing. I was aware today that I had something of a short fuse and was triggered quickly by silly little things. I need to do better.
Back to the grind tomorrow, we have a number of appointments thru the day and a will spend some time at my MiLs sorting out some more of her stuff.

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

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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 759 , Tuesday 25/11/2025

Tuesday started quite late at just gone 07:30.
Mrs S was in the office today so I had the house to myself.

I got my breakfast & did the normal early chores .

There is still stuff to do to get things back to normal now the router has been moved but I was waiting on materials to be delivered so I decided to have a bit of a lazy day.

This kind of worked in that I did some miscellaneous bits & bobs this morning, had lunch then called the store where I bought my new iPad from to chase a discount I had been promised but which had failed to be applied to my purchase - after 18 minutes on hold to their helpdesk a guy called Ollie answered & like so many people do, addressed me as madame - ok I have a high pitched voice - I’m not sure my voice ever broke - but really!!

Anyway I think his guilt at this faux pas got me an easy ride because as soon as I explained my problem he disappeared for a couple of minutes then came back & applied the discount!

Having not only conquered my intense dislike of calling folk, but also succeeding in my mission I decided that I deserved the 1st Dune movie!

I quite happily watched Dune until about 3pm when for no reason other than the thought occurring to me, I decided to redo the cabling in the recently fitter smart network switch (which did need doing because I had failed to document what was fitted to each port, making port management a bit complex) & in doing so decided that to accomplish this I needed to rewire the whole AV unit (where the switch is sited).
There followed a couple of hours merry cable management with the upshot that the cable runs in the AV unit are now a lot tidier & devoid of several redundant cables & all the ports in the smart switch are now identified & documented.

While I was about it I decided that (later this week ) the sound system needs recalibrating. I might factory reset the AVR we have & start from scratch, we've had issues with Mrs S's Bluetooth headphones loosing their connection to the AVR recently so a reset might well help.

I still need to finish watching Dune & watch Dune pt 2, that will be my reward at the end of the week I think!

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day, not the relax fest I initially planned but not a bad day for all that!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 760 , Wednesday 26/11/2025

Wednesday started just after 07:30 & found me suffering from a streaming cold which had come over me during the night causing me to sneeze myself awake in the wee small hours!

I cracked on with breakfast & my chores then set about insulating the pipes that run along the landing & those in Mrs S’s study.
I also re laid part of the cable run to my room because it was bugging me that it wasn’t ’just so’.

The doorbell went around 11am & our postie stood without holding my iPad, which I’m now using to write this! However at the time I was very good, & put it on one side, having thanked our Portman profusely, & went back to re-laying the floorboards.

Stopped for a cheese n pickle sarnie around 1pm then finished the floorboards.

I had just finished that at around 3pm when Mrs S rang to say that her mum had been taken to hospital again & she was on route to see what was what. Turns out that my MiL had had a fall & cut her leg, but other than a dressing & an overnight stay under observation she seems to be ok - indeed Mrs S rang this evening & the Dr was discussing discharge details with her.

The upshot of all this is that I delayed unpacking & making the the new iPad mine until I knew all was well & I wasn’t going to have to find someway getting over to the hospital without a car!

So it was at around 4pm I finally got to play with my new toy / early Christmas present.

I’ve decided not to do a straight copy of everything all at once as I want to tailor this new iPad according to its capabilities.

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day all told, the post router move work is very nearly done & I have my new iPad 3 days before I was expecting it!

Now it just has to survive until tomorrow lunchtime when the case & screen protector arrive!

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

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 801 , Tuesday 06/01/2026

Tuesday started late - the duvet was hard to let go of & I finally managed to escape its clutches at around 08:15.

Mrs S had gone into the office so there was a load of tidying up to do before I could get my breakfast.

Caught up on here after breakfast then finished the days chores.

I finally decided on a ‘new’ game this afternoon, having access to the playstation back catalog thru my PSN+ I decided to try ‘Dishonoured’ from something like 10 years ago. I can see why it won a load of awards, it had me gripped from the start & there is a follow up also available on the back catalog. It’s not got a wide open world but I can live with it.

We had a pasta bake for tea when Mrs S got home then a bit of nostalgia in the shape of episodes of ‘All Creatures Great & Small’ & ‘One Foot in the Grave’ seeing us to the end of the evening.
I am Victor Meldrew! 😆

Final Thoughts.

It’s my MiL’s funeral tomorrow, it looks like a cold day to be standing outside for her burial. Many spoons will be needed.

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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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 779 , Monday 15/12/2025

Monday started rather early and just before 7am.

I made us breakfast then did some chores before we set out for the days adventures.

First stop was to drop Mrs S off at the solicitors to have a meeting about next steps vis a vis the will & my MiL's estate, it seems that they will do the majority of the heavy lifting, for a fee of course!

While Mrs S was in with the solicitor I went up to my MiL's house and tackled a couple more draws ... made some interesting finds today in the shape of a laser measure (Bosch so a decent make), a handful of pencils, some miscellaneous small tools and a pair of binoculars. Mine are a Russian made pair I bought when I was a teenager, these are Miranda 10x50 wide angle with coated lenses. Not super special but better than my Russian pair!
There were a variety of other small nik-naks. I also came away with a small foot poof that I'm resting my tootsies on now and very comfy it is too!

We went to one of the local garden centres for lunch after Mrs S's meeting at the solicitors had finished. Then we closed up the house and went to meeting with the Undertakers, which went ok.

We did a bit of clothes shopping on the way home and then had a light tea of a couple of chicken skewers followed by a naughty helping of ice-cream.

Final Thoughts.

Mrs S is back in the office tomorrow so I can have a day to myself, which after today I could do with to be honest.

I'm endeavouring not to feel guilty about claiming my FiL & MiL's bits and bobs. I know that the contents were left to Mrs S and I to share between us but even so.

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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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 761 , Thursday 27/11/2025

Thursday started around 07:15 ish, after an absolutely rubbish night due to I the lurgy that has me in its clutches.

Mrs S has stepped up & helped a lot today, I must look ill!

Spent most of the day working on getting my new iPad the way I want it & transferring Mrs S’s stuff from her old iPad to my ‘old’ iPad Pro. It should be a significant change for her not least because it’s a bigger screen.
She is not, by any stretch of the imagination a techno nerd but hopefully she will enjoy the bump up in speed & facilities.

One thing I have noticed is that my new iPad seems to have corrected a long standing problem I had with compose boxes on Mona & other apps not scrolling down when the text hit the bottom of the compose box, in fact not merely not scrolling down but the text vanishing until the post was sent. I found that placing a cartridge return or an emoji at the end of the text was a work around but it was annoying nonetheless!
It only took buying a whole new iPad to fix!

Final Thoughts.

I’m feeling slightly better this evening, which is an improvement - I’m hoping for a better night tonight!

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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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 762 , Friday 28/11/2025

Friday started just after 07:15 after a much better night than the previous one but with me still coughing & splitting as I fight the lurgy!

Today has been a quiet day with the high point being the arrival of the bits & bobs for my new iPad - a screen protector, case & a new apple pencil as the old one isn’t compatible - talk about built in obsolescence!

I’ve reset the AVR today factory settings again today & so I have to go thru the settings & recalibrate it next week when Mrs S is in the office.

Final Thoughts.

Well thanks to a number of fairly minor frustrations today has not ended on a high note.

Sometimes I wish there was someone close at hand who I could depend upon to help with technical issues. It is exhausting under usual circumstances to be the one working out the solution to pretty much any problem that occurs with even the most simple electronic devices in the house, it’s even more exhausting when I’m ill & my brain isn’t firing on all cylinders!

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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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 763 , Saturday 29/11/2025

Saturday started late, I had another very disturbed night so I slept thru until nearly 8am.

It’s been a quiet day, I went wild & made scrambled eggs for lunch - threw a couple of bread cakes into the air fryer for a couple of minutes - it toasted them wonderfully! Spread some blue cheese onto the toasted bread cakes & threw the eggs on top = very nice if I do say so myself.

It’s been another day of recovery today - I’m mostly there - just gotta get my strength back now, hopefully I will get a good nights sleep tonight!

We’ve had a Downton fest this afternoon / evening with pizza for tea!

The new iPad is settling in nicely, Mrs S seems happy with her upgrade & the ‘old’ iPad 7th gen is cleared ready for the trade in when the relevant packaging arrives next week.

Final Thoughts.

I seem to have won the battle with this bug, so I can look to finish tidying up after the great router move of 2025!

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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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 764 , Sunday 30/11/2025

Sunday started obscenely early at just past 6am when Mrs S woke me to tell me that she had had a call from the hospital where my MiL is being treated to the effect that she should get over there because they were putting my MiL on ‘End of Life’ care!

Mrs S insured on going in on her own, although I offered several times to go with.

I took me a while to get my act into gear, & by the time I got downstairs for breakfast Mrs S had already left.

After breakfast I got on with the task of heroism upstairs back into some kind of shape, I had to take the door off Mrs S’s study to lay the carpet, then that had to go back on, there were a whole host of other minor jobs that cumulatively took me until 3pm, with only a berth stop for a quick lunch.

Mrs S got back around 4pm with the news that her mum was up & had been asking for tea & biscuits - so it looks like she might well recover. I swear my MiL has more lives than a cat, this is the 3rd time she has come back from what doctors at that hospital have described as ‘end of life’ care!

Mrs S seemed happy with my efforts & was happier still when I made us ham hocks with veg & baby potatoes, with lashings of gravy!

Final Thoughts.

Well today has been a different day to what I envisaged yesterday!

On the plus side my MiL seems to be on the mend, although we are only cautiously optimistic on that front!
Also I seem to have more or less gotten over the dreaded lurgy. I still have a cough & ache a bit but other than that I’m ok.

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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Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 765 , Monday 01/12/2025

Monday started stupidly early with next door’s kid screaming warheads off & chasing one another at around 6am!

I clung to my comfy warm duvet for as long as I could but was downstairs by 06:30!

Breakfast followed then after my coffee & some time on here I worked on the daily chores.

I’ve been taking ginkgo biloba for the last few weeks & it really seems to be helping me focus & find the motivation to do things.
I’ve tidied my desk today, with side forays into sorting out my not inconsiderable hoard of computer cables & drives.

The end result, after a days effort is a much tidier desk & a better layout for my mac & the 2 attached screens.

Now I’m left with the much bigger job of sorting my filing system out - it has been neglected for far too long!

Finished the day with s fried chicken takeaway & an episode of Judge John Deed - a fine way to end the day!

Final Thoughts.

I am starting to function again after a long period of struggle, but some of the key factors that drag me down are still very much in play. Perhaps one day I will be brave enough to tackle them & completely change my life.

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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