What do you mean, we can’t throw him in prison!? IF we had a functional justice system he would have been hung as a traitor to the United States. He tried to overthrow the government and kill the vice president. There should have been no coming back from that. This isn’t just hearsay we saw it happen live. Then he sold documents to any foreign government who showed interest, which is also highly, HIGHLY illegal.

If the justice system is so broken as to not penalize a man who is attempted to take down our democracy multiple times, than project 2025 is inevitable. If it not illegal to overthrow the government, than why does it matter who we elect?

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!

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.

They sell carpender bee traps at the local feed store. It always makes me sad to see them. Leave the carpender bees alone! They don’t need to be killed just because you think they are a pest.

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.

Me alone in the forest, lost and confused: huh I thought at least one of them would be here!!???

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

I’ve been trying to do a version of this. Sometimes I just need a day off. Driving myself into the ground won’t help anything. It helps to take a day here and there, even if it means more work tomorrow.

I can get a version of this, but instead of heat it feels like my skin is full of bees.

I hate it when I cut the tag out but there’s still tag material caught in the seam that I can’t remove without undoing the seam. Arrggghh!

Oh god I had a Keith at my work place. Wanted to show me shit on his phone instead of working. What is it with Keiths!?

This is a good suggestion because in the Subnautica Below Zero you can play a custom game mode where you can turn off predator aggression, hunger, thirst, and freezing allowing you to roam to your hearts content without getting eaten.

Oh, oh yeah. And it’s not their fault either. Sometimes I just wanna scream “everyone get out of my house!!” Except it’s their house too.

I tap my fingers, usually on my thighs. I also have a bad one for high anxiety situations where I’ll rub my thumbnail into the pads of my other fingers. I have actully cut my fingertips open this way in high stress moments.

I’ll pray for you buddy, as I too need to get more drugs on a lets not get more drugs budget.

I played it on the switch and loved it. Didn’t really notice any major performance issues with it.

I finally, finally got a decent used car. I didn’t realize how much driving a 2006 shitbox affected my life until I got a 2018 toyota. Holy shit. I don’t have to plan every trip to have multiple stops bc I can’t afford to waste gas. I don’t have to take my big winter coat and negative rated sleeping bag with me everywhere, all the time, because I don’t have to worry about breaking down somewhere and having to wait for a tow truck.

I have a backup camera, which as someone who has always struggled with parellel parking is a GODSEND. I don’t have to listen to the same CD on loop bc the radio actually works.

But the best part? The parking brake works. Now I can park on inclines! And the dash lights work too! No more using Waze at night to see how fast I’m going at night!

I feel like I’ve finally broken the poverty loop! (Well part of it anyway.)