@actuallyautistic So I went to my event today. As I was waiting in line to order at the counter, I noticed I was flat out stimming. Not stimming to music, not secretly stimmings. I was stimming in the open. I was tapping my fists together. The middle phalanges of the left fist were hitting the base phalanges of the right.
I went down to sit with my coffee and waited for my food to arrive, and I continued stimming. Whenever my hands were not busy with something else I was stimming. My forms of stimming changed. Sometimes I was tapping my fists, sometimes I played the imaginary piano on the table.
My paresthesia was much lower during this event. I think the stimming was actually helping reduce the impact of social anxiety.
Nobody gave me grief over it. I openly told people that I'm autistic. One lady told me her 12yo daughter is also autistic.
I know I stimmed like this when I was younger, but I don't recall the details.
I'm learning to drop the mask.
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Trump promised the "best economy ever."
Biden actually delivered it:
β’ 17 straight months of sub-4% unemployment, the longest stretch of sub-4% unemployment in over 50 years
β’ Labor force participation for prime-working-age Americans at a 22-year high
β’ 13.2 million jobs created since Biden took office
β’ Wages rising faster than inflation
β’ Inflation and unemployment both lower than when Reagan won a landslide reelection in 1984
#trump jr is a piece of authentic π© like his worthless dad. β Australian minister calls Trump Jr. a 'big baby' after postponed tour - Business Insider https://apple.news/AmbX-RI1TQC6B3wyhEpBEnQ
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Iβm on a short road trip to the Pacific Ocean for a writing retreat with two of my favorite people! And I forgot to bring my traveling copy of Late-Identified #AuDHD A Starter Workbook. Do I need to take this workbook traveling with around the state? No, but itβs fun. π₯° Check out these older traveling photos from close to Mt. Baker.
. #actuallyautistic #adhd #autism #autistic
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From what the technician said to me it seems like everyone finds it traumatic - itβs just for some people the response to it is to shut down so they donβt βfeelβ it the same way. I guess I was just lucky to fall in to that camp.
I hope that the information they get from it makes it worth having gone through it.
@Sci_Fi_FanGirl a situation in which i consider more than 20 people at once as friends or comfortable with, would be a completely new experience. π«£@actuallyautistic
@WideAperture my (adult) daughter says they look like they are about to politely but firmly ask me for my lunch money. π
"Swedish Authorities Charge Greta Thunberg With the Crime of Disobeying Cops"
We ALL should be disobeying cops and risking arrest. That's the only option remaining to inspire real change.
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.