Jones is just doing it again, pitting the family’s against each other while he shoves money into every hole, family bussiness and off shore bank he can get his filthy mitts on. He’s guilty. He has assets. Sell them off and split the money between the families who won settlements. HOW HARD IS IT!??

I have to wake up extra early to make sure I get my goose and chicken coops cleaned before it gets too hot. It’s miserable.

I don’t have a lot of advice on how to identify triggers, it’s a crap shoot, but here is what I do about them when I feel overwhelm coming on.

One: Belly breathing. This is beyond a doubt the greatest skill I learned in therapy. Plenty of tutorials online for it and few different versions.

Two: Imagine a dial on your stomach with the numbers 1-10. 10 being meltdown and 1 being completely calm. Picture yourself slowly turning down the dial while taking deep breaths.

Three: I started carrying a small fidget toy in my pocket that I can play with when I feel like I want to rip off my skin and run screaming out of the biulding.

Hope this helps!

Trump needs a glass of warm milk and a nap in a jail cell, not to be running for president.

He is the Senator from PA. He was super liberal up until he had a stroke and then became super conservative. Complete 180. Seems to have knocked out his sense of humor too. Now it seems he’s taking risks he would not have taken pre stroke by driving recklessly.

It’s fine, the peasants will just suffer and die, there’s always more peasants.- ol’ Meatball Ron.

I wish I could upvote you more than once for this. I appreciate the view from the front lines, as it were. Everywhere I look poeple are being asked to do more with less and for less. I don’t know how much longer these systems are going to hold out at the rate we’re going.

I think he pretty much nailed how it feels to be autistic, at least for me. Really great skills in some areas and then absolutely terrible skills in others. How exhausting masking is. I think I only ever unmask when I am alone. It scares me to ask where do I end and mask begins? I’m not sure I know anymore.

I’m not able to watch the video until I get home today, but I am a high functioning autistic women. I have been told SO MANY times I can’t be autistic. Not that I don’t act like I have autism, not that I don’t seem autistic, that I can’t be. It isn’t until poeple see what work and socializing takes out of me that they truly understand I am autistic and how much WORK goes into appearing to be normal so I can keep my job.

This is not a healthy coping mechanism but I bribe myself with cookies like I’m a dog. If I get up and put the laundry in the dryer I get a cookie. If I send that email I get a cookie. It usually works. It won’t really make me enjoy life but it does get me through it, if you know what I mean.

Yup. After my diagnosis there was a lot that suddenly made sense looking back on it.

I don’t think so. I think you’re supposed to look at both somehow. I haven’t got this completely figured out.

I have taught myself to do it relatively well, although it still feels like their is electricity in the back of my brain. I can think through it but it’s hard. I also do it intermittently, I don’t make myself hold it unless for very serious conversations. I also tend to look at one eye at a time, but no one has called me out on it yet.

When poeple went on political rants at work I would say “let’s play a game. It’s called Don’t Talk Politics at Work. I’ll go first!” Then I would shut up, turn around and keep on working. Just replace politics with whatever. It’s low key funny with a deadpan delivery so I’ve never had anyone get mad at me for it.

Pretty sure there are some rules about not forcibly relocating US citizens to foreign war zones. Ah, who am I kidding, rules don’t apply to the GOP anymore.

Don’t forget the mercury poisoning!

I love the term Neuro-spicy! I’m stealing that one.

I don’t think there’s any “could be” about it. It’s already 78 degrees at my house in April. We normally wouldn’t see temps that high until June.

You can be a totally happy weirdo in the future for sure. I’m autistic as well, diagnosed as an adult. It might take you longer to find something you don’t mind doing for work, or to form lasting friendships, but it’s totally possible.