♫ When your bones feel like lead and you can't leave the bed
That's fatigué
When the fog is so strong that no thought comes along
That's fibro ♪
♫ Pain will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling
Ting-a-ling-a-ling, and you'll sing, "Ouch, I'm hurting"
Pain will play tippy-tippy-tay
Tippy-tippy-tay, agony disconcerting ♪
Cornflakes (any brand) with 1 banana cut into slices and enough oat milk to almost cover both. 1 to 2 mugs of strong black tea with oat milk and sugar. Too many meds to mention. 😂
If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽
I made a timeline for my therapist from my birth until today because so much has happened in my life that was worth talking about that she kept getting confused. She was very grateful to have a visual representation of when which shit hit which fans, so to speak.
Sometimes when I talk about my family in therapy I can see my therapist sketching a family tree to keep track of everyone so last time I offered to make her a graph and she said "that's fine I have one I just forget to bring it" so yeah that's where we're at
Me too, @teaboot and @kangamommynow. And it's always accompanied by me saying something like "Down the hatch," "One for the road," or some similar nonsense.
I dipped into my savings and bought an e-bike (pedelec). You guys, have you any idea how much freedom this means for someone with chronic pain? I rode to my brother's and back today, something that would normally cause me a lot of pain and total exhaustion, ending in 2-3 hours of having to lie down afterwards. Do you want to know how long I lay down? 10 minutes. If that. "Excited" doesn't even begin to cover it. 🤩
Me: "Which part of 'I'm autistic' did you not understand?" 🙄 We don't do subtext very well. Or irony. Or sarcasm. Unless it's overplayed or pointed out to us as being any of the above.
"You take everything so literally!" Ah, yes. I suppose it would be much simpler if I just assumed that everything anyone says has an implied backended double-meaning, like I'm the Alice in a wonderland entirely populated by passive-agressive hookah-smoking caterpillars. That would be far less stressful for all parties
On my medical discharge report from the clinic that diagnosed me with ASD, it says: "Patient hardly opens mouth when talking" and it's stuck with me ever since I read it.
I'm still wondering why anyone would write something so mean on it, knowing full well that the patient might read it at some point. What does it matter how much someone opens their mouth when talking?! It's made me super self-conscious and I simply can't shake off the feeling that I'm doing it (The Talking™) wrong.
So I guess the answer to your tag-question, @pangur-and-grim, is yes, they are. 😕
not to brag or anything, but my hospital notes have a little compliment