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Recent content by Neia

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    I might be mean

    My annoyance is with those friends (acquaintances) and family who ask "How are you, how have you been?" and I am either forced into a "OK I guess..." and then they move on to talk about anything else. Or I say "Not so good." and they go "Oh well, we can't have everything." or say something...
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    I might be mean

    So... have you ever answered a phone call, or met a friend or family member and they ask how you're doing? Most likely the answer is yes. It took me nearly 5 decades, but I finally realised, and internalised, that most people really don't want an honest answer to that question. In the past...
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    Flapping my hands

    I have a photo of when I was about 1, I have a cookie in one hand and the other one is up. I always looked at it and knew I was flapping my free hand. I don't exactly remember doing it, but when I looked at that photo, I always knew that that hand wasn't stil.🤷🏻‍♀️ That is my faint memory of it...
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    Flapping my hands

    I think they might do, but probably not to the same degree, not so prominently. For me, most of my stims are "quiet" ones, unobtrusive. If my fingers wiggling bothered someone, I started wiggling my toes, nobody noticed my toes wiggling inside the shoes. If tapping my fingers on a desk or...
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    Flapping my hands

    For me it looks like this:
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    Flapping my hands

    For the first time, since I was very little, I flapped my hands, and it felt good. I was trying to calm down. These are the last few days before the move, and my stress is stressing me out.😵‍💫 I was feeling like my whole body could explode, and did what I usually do, I clasped my hands...
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    Anyone Else Feel Like They Don't Belong?

    You just wrote my personality résumé.
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    On interests and activities.

    Doing something the very best way I can, not doing a half-assed job of it. If I learn a language, I learn it! Grammar and all 😅 I love the intricacies of languages. I love discovering the connections with other languages. Like the Kine Greek word mastigoó, which literally means to scourge...
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    A Change in Climate

    Another saying we have in my family is, always be dressed for an emergency 😬😅😆 Imagine there's a fire, or earthquake, and you have to leave the house, immediately! I'd rather have a t-shirt and shorts on 😂
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    On interests and activities.

    I'm still interested in learning Greek. But there's always something to butt in 😅 I know I'll feel frustrated if I can't dedicate enough time to it, so I won't get started, again, until I can pour my full (almost) attention into it.
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    A Change in Climate

    I bought a little vintage weather station in Switzerland. It marks humidity as being at 100% all the time 😂 It's either broken, or it was calibrated for Swiss weather 😜😂
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    I Remembered Why I Don’t Tell People I’m Autistic…

    Funnily enough, I do both 🙈 I check and recheck things, and still managed to get locked out of my house on more than one occasion 😅
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    A Change in Climate

    Only in spring, autumn and winter. Summer is actually hotter 😫 But the houses are better insulated because it gets so cold. So, hopefully, summers will be more bearable.😬
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    On interests and activities.

    Is it a trait of autism to not be able to dedicate equal amounts of time to different interests? For instance: a couple of years ago I finally had the chance to have my lifelong dream of learning biblical Greek come true. But, at the time I was going through a "crochet all the time" phase. I...
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    A Change in Climate

    We have a saying in our family. In winter you can always wear one more layer, in summer you can't take everything off 😅 I can't stand the hot weather. It takes me down, it gives me headaches and even nausea at times. The only way to fight it is to lay very still in a well ventilated place, in...
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