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How was your Christmas?

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Rachie

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Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it.

Yes it still going and in the US just began. I have been out for a get together and will comment later. I will come back perhaps today or tomorrow to comment on my day etc.

I hope you will be able to get some enjoyment from yours.
 
I have been having a good time over the last two days.

It was strange in some ways though as I was sitting for luncheon and sometimes I have questions about all my diagnoses even those for over 30 years. Here I was again saying yes this shows I am definitely autistic. I am but I do it and just did a few weeks ago as well. I look out for clues still if my eating disorder is real since I had since 14 and I am 51 now.It was quite volumed and then I started to show it in my body.

I asked someone I was sitting next to if they had ever heard of ASD or ADHD and I see them weekly usually and really like them. They didn’t say no but they had a hearing condition so I could understand why they was speaking in a volume. It was hard for my nerves but of course it is fine. I was schooled with people with hearing issues and we were all the same and they didn’t speak with a volume like this but we are all different of course. They were great company and I would do nothing different. They said a joke and I didn’t get it and then said why as I am autistic. There was more. I could have bolted it today right but no I didn't wanr to, I was also enjoying myself.

I have written this in word first. I was thinking I can understand why as a child around 7 I would freak and it affect my behaviour. I was not a bad then or now and how my sensory can affect my behaviour and have an overwhelm. I felt like having one today and i was enjoying myself but my sensory was saying different to my brain takes it but I can see how my childhood has defined where I am today.

I was around very good people from our church. My mum and dad are abroad so is my sister and two brothers are with their families. This was on the cards for a while but this morning i was too tired and said I was not going to go but pulled it around last minute when I got up to give all the neighbours in my block Christmas cards. I love tradition. As I was going to give the cards families were passing and I felt like shouting Happy Christmas etc. Shows that I love Christmas.

I took one present Lego Creator. I love it but I was imaging 1000s pieces hours overwhelms me not used to it. I hadn’t even opened it yet. You can make a video camera and some of you ok that I do filmmaking so it is great for me and I will get the video camera made out of it even if I need to pay someone to do it lol. After that I will just leave close to my real one lol.

I noticed I was closing my eyes and doing so allowed my senses to be strenghted and allowing to actually take in the King’s Speech. For me it was a good one about supporting others with faiths or no faith how it should be done. I couldn’t find on the TV the speech for the Archbishop I must have missed.

There was a spinner from a cracker and I wished I had it. Got up to a take a photo then someone gave it to me. I was amazed it?

I told them a joke of my mine, noone understood. I had the figure as well and it was round and shifting walking I said what is round and shifting and put it on to walk noone wow. I didn't get their own jokes too. Like I have said I can have my own. Love to show the santa but I cannot upload videos right to this forum with Youtube and really it is not worth for what 10 seconds lol.

The rest of the day I was alone and having fun on my interests.
Enjoy the rest of your day and much peace everyone.
 

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I have been at home some time and have got my feet up. I have had time to go on my youtube. I have uploaded the santa so can see my joke.

Again I will repeat
What is round and shifts right noone got it even moving...

Being shifty isn't great too right. Better to be straight forward and that is the way how I love my Santa..yes it was mum usually lol.

Santa is always lovely but he is shifting and moving in the free Santa. I was looking at him moving like that and thought that is odd and thinking it doesn't look right lol.

Did anyone track him or too old here?
This video is unlisted as it is not my usual videos lol to look strange on my page of interests.

 
Merry Christmas, Jen, no matter if it is Boxing Day (or St Stephens Day).or the day after Christmas-- I'm celebrating the whole season long. Happy all of the holidays!
 
The green car in the video below came up in the luncheon as well. As I wrote there was a spinner and I loved it as in my distraction fidigts I have a spinner but bigger. The small one yesterday just seemed to go for eons though yesterday. I knew I could never ask to swap out a green car that did nothing for a spinner! I said there what can we do with it and nobody knew. Several attempted to have a guess. For I got it home put defenders on and picked it up and my hand just started to glide the car along....younger brothers for you and nephews as well..So knew how to guide but didn't get it with it just looking flat like that..weird number now but classic retro gift in a cracker as well...I like the little dinky gift ones as well.

The green car I put unlisted on Youtube
 
Took a very long and brisk two-hour walk with my cousin and her dog along the Truckee River. It was cold and clear here, but relatively pleasant. A nice day ending with a nice restaurant dinner.

Of course I'm a little stiff and sore getting up the next day. Whew, quite a workout. But good for me.
 
I had a very good Christmas with my mom. I went to her place on Christmas Eve and we opened our gifts. I got my mom a gift card but she is so good to me I felt like getting her more than just a gift card. I happened to find a coffee mug with Gingy the Gingerbread Man from Shrek on it, and my Mom likes Shrek so I bought it for her. Then we had a nice supper and went for a drive to see the houses lit up. I was a little nervous because my mom doesn't have good night vision and hasn't driven in the dark in years, but there was very little traffic and we got home safely.:)
 
Went to my sons house had dinner opened presents. watch my 19 month old grand daughter walk up stairs with her father emulating how everyone else walks up the stairs, she lives in an apartment with no stairs. her dad and I both shocked she just walked up. He held her hand she walked up with confidence.
 
Rachie said:
Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it.

Yes it still going and in the US just began. I have been out for a get together and will comment later. I will come back perhaps today or tomorrow to comment on my day etc.

I hope you will be able to get some enjoyment from yours.
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We think of it more as a Solstice Celebration around my home, but it tends to be on the 25th/26th because that is when employers close and we have days off. It has been challenging. The last two celebrations were blown up by my mother-in-law and her health issues. Last year in particular, I had booked an Airbnb in the mountains for us in the days following Xmas that I had to cancel because of her. I only got a partial refund.

I had booked a replacement trip this year for the same stretch of days and you-know-who screwed my family out of it again. I don't get unlimited time off and this miserable ... creature ... keeps sabotaging it. I am done with her and wish she would just do the world a favour and expire already. She is THAT objectionable. My daughter, her granddaughter, also can't stand the woman because of her consistently wretched behaviour. My wife can't see anything wrong with how her mom behave and it is a constant source of friction in my marriage and her relationship with her own kid.

Long story short: I am going back to work in worse shape than I left and I need a break so I can recover from my holiday break. My daughter is also a wreck. Again.
 
I spent all night Christmas Eve watching the History Channel.
Christmas day I mostly slept and ate.

Laid back, quiet and kept to myself.

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Hope everyone here had a good one!
 
It was great, and I'm enjoying the time off work too.

We saw my relatives on Christmas eve and saw my husband's relatives on boxing day. On Christmas day we just stayed in and cooked dinner (roast beef).
 
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Christmas day I rode over to visit a friend. She usually is with family on Christmas and this year she wasn't so I rode over and gave her a little gift I had made.
My main Christmas is this Sunday when all my kids, grandkids and great grandson will be here. Everyone will be bringing different food boards, the kids will exchange secret Santa gifts, adults play dirty Santa game, and all year I've been working on a saran wrap ball. And, hopefully, I'll get a good family photo - not an easy task with15 adults and 11 littles.
Hope you and everyone here had a good Christmas.
 
I've pretty much gotten over feeling lonely at Christmas. This year the main difference was trying to recover from medical abuse, having a minor problem kept in play as a billing token while my mental health went in the toilet. The local nurses run the system, and they treat aspies like unruly children who need to be bullied into gratitude.
 
There can be so much pressure around Christmas and looking to the year ahead. I just said to myself today I am thankful for my Christmas. The 3 days of joy I had from Christmas Eve to Boxing day it was quite a lot of fun here and there for sure. I was very unwell several weeks ago with severe headaches likely from carbon monoxide and I couldn't think straight for most of the day. I also had severe pain in my stomach remitting. Family that I used to spend it with most often was not here. I started fearing the worst, but I got through it. My headaches have nearly cleared and my stomach issue seemed to vanish over Christmas. What more can I ask for, I said a few weeks back, how can I possibly have a decent Christmas like this. I had blood tests to before Christmas so was no longer sitting with health anxiety. How can I not be greatful.

To start of events of Christmas Eve I made an old classic from childhood which my siblings have forgotteon about and we all marvelled over it and I don't like hot pepper food and tasted some and declared it best ever. Come night I didn't wish to sleep as I wanted my old classic food I couldn't believe it. The next day was full of fun as well. It goes on.

Here is to a better year ahead for all.
 
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