TerdFerguson

I think I understand, despite not personally being one to take a position over how to express that concept. It seems like it might be more meaningfully applied by yourself as you can clearly relate the distinction along the severity gradient of autism.

Those sound like healing activities :)

I broke the phone habit in a couple of ways, if it helps you to hear:

First was to stop using apps when a mobile format website existed. It makes it more inconvenient to use, which is what you want in this case, so you get annoyed and disengage.

Second, you can use the content filter to custom block the sites like Lemmy that might be part of your habitual phone use that happens whn you're bored. You want to use that boredom feeling as a signal to do one of the more productive activities instead. If you have iPhone, try turning the adult filter on then add a custom domain "crazypeople.online"

Third is to decide on some time to power it off and put it away out of sight. No notifications or text messages to check if the phone is off. I've got a spot in the laundry room that I leave my phone powered down. I continued these practices after recovering, and tomorrow I will still power off my phone and put it away. You don't want that thing's psychological hooks pressing your buttons even once you're healthy again.

Maybe.. but I feel like forcing people to do things doesn't often yield the best results. I do agree that consistent and positive interaction would be meaningful.

Culturally, we need people to set the examples and to lead correctly. And that's adults, whether its teachers or parents, including and accepting the autistic kid and encouraging the neurotypical kids to be the same.

If that's in line with what you're saying, then we're on the same page.

I get that and have been there. The worst kind of burnout will still force you down and out irrespective of your priorities and obligations. Take care of your self.

I had the severe burn out that happens when you ignore the root cause and keep trying to push through it until you're incapacitated by what can effectively be described as a brain injury.

My burn out left me feeling concussed for months. I lost a lot in that condition and I was forced to take medical leave from work that eventually became permanent. Fortunately, I was able to recover and rebuild myself into a, mentally, much healthier person.

Not a lot. I would lay in bed for half of the day, listening to the various aircraft fly over my home. I got to know their routines. I made the mistake of spending time online, and that delayed my recovery I'm sure of it. At the time... Reddit, Youtube, Netflix, gaming.. all that stuff got in the way.
I was only able to convince someone that I was well enough to start a new job after 5 months of trying to heal. To be honest, it was closer to a year before I was really actually functioning alright, but I was down to the last few hundred dollars of savings that I had left and had to work or would have lost my truck and home. In a way I think I'm still recovering several years later (in a good way), but I knew I was better once I felt like I wasn't trapped by the same old problems that led me to burn out in the first place.. and that came a while after I was 'functional' and capable of working again.
Brain rest is what will heal you. Scrolling socials is not brain rest, its brain work consuming (mostly) garbage information. Watching shows or videos is not brain rest. Gaming is not brain rest. If you do these things, set very short and strict limits on it. If you can manage to not do them, that will help a lot. Brain rest is meditation. Brain rest is cleaning your home and keeping you hygiene up. Brain rest is reading a book. It's a light hobby, like drawing or tending to plants. It's writing in a journal by hand. Get exercise, it will speed up healing.

Meditation, once you get the hang of it, is like bathing your brain in cool cucumber water. It is a skill you can learn to protect yourself from burnout in the future.

It will change when all the regular folks learn to use their sense of reason to question their own emotionally-driven judgements.

I don't see that being a skill that is encouraged in many parts of our society, because it would make the people more capable of thinking critically and less susceptible to the political/ideological manipulations that prey on their anger and fear.

Quadroon. There, is said it

There are ADHD-style tendencies, but I don't think that reaches disorder-level for me. Autism affects me more meaningfully.

I can keep my chaos localized to certain areas of my home and life, but the sensory and social issues follow me everywhere.

Here we have the diagnostic definition at odds with the desire to socialize the specific condition to the layman and advance acceptance.

I agree the new descriptors sometimes runs counter to that effort. So I tend to describe my L1ASD condition as "the Asperger's style of autism" to the uninitiated.

Unfortunately, this can also draw negativity from the cohort of autistic folks that want to see the term Asperger's deleted because they misunderstand who Hans Asperger was and what he actually was about. The popular story about that has been distilled to a soundbyte of "He WaS a NaZi" spongebob font and all.

This is the mindset that defeats the possibility: 'I must do this myself' Most people stop there.

You have it exactly right with the second part of course, you have to organize so that isn't the case. Anyone who wants this to stop, their job is to meet 10 real people who agree that enough is enough.

Imagine what you can do with 10 focused and organized people in coordination. Imagine if it was their job to find 10 more people who are focused and organized. How big of a punch might you throw with 100 good people, assuming you don't want to waste your effort marching around the street waving signs and shouting slogans?

Here's a slogan for you: Organize, OPSEC, Overthrow

As it will, until people organize and push back.

Will you have more capability to do that tomorrow, or less?

Somehow, I always find a reason to do something else first. And then some other thing, and then I forget what I was supposed to do for 10 minutes until I remember... and then suddenly some other thing has to be done first again.

I procastinate until there's no time left and then I get all stressed out when I suddenly can't find what I need to get started on doing the thing. All the tools or materials have somehow migrated into the chaos dimension that is my various piles of clutter around the house.

No. I won't do it until after he heals my arthritis.

Well I guess if our 'allies' do it... its fine or Canada. No need to think about it. Also.. FUCKING BULLSHIT, you're right its completely false.

I'm sorry to hear that. My MP responded with a thoughtful, lengthy, and well articulated message that seemed to be personally written and not made of LLM slop.

It made me glad I voted for him in our riding

FWIW, my MP responded to my message confirming his opposition to C-22 and his understanding of this legislation as advancing provisions for mass surveillance.

just ordered my first pair of these yesterday. I hope they are as good as everyone says!

Don't need no fancy-shmancy autism detector. I can usually just tell.

My feelings are hurt. I will retreat into my sycophantic echo chamber to make myself feel better.

What a pathetic little piss baby.

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