I don't know why you want to fight about this
Blue blood from a horseshoe crab yes. Blue crabs are also a thing and horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front. So calling them just crabs with the word blue in front is a poor choice if one cares about communication.
Horseshoe crabs not blue crabs
Yeah like have some self-reflection jeez, go to therapy for your anxiety, I dunno, but don't project your anxiety onto your employees in a disciplinary manner for God's sake.
Where do you keep them? How do you ensure you put them away on the proper place?
I've been fermenting a thought about this topic recently that I want to get others comments on.
It has to do with late-diagnosed autistic folks coping with living in a NT world so that even when we encounter other autistic folks we don't trust that they are actually speaking literally. Like even after having conversations with them about this subject.
I have two close relationships where I struggle with this where they are so anxiety-ridden from over 30 years of coping mechanisms that we are constantly having communication struggles from them worrying about and even inserting hidden deeper meanings into my literal speech. Even after months and years of friendship and many conversations about how I am literally always saying exactly what I mean.
It's like they've both coping mechanismed themselves into permanent anxiety about the secret hidden meanings that NT insert into speech that their brains are traumatized and they can't turn it off.
Does anyone else relate to either side of that?
Can you talk about the process of you remembering to put the bracelets on? How does that work?
Totally. What do you think we should call it?
Wow thank you
Since realizing I'm autistic I have had a few big areas of skill regression that have really concerned me. Mainly sensory sensitivity leading to overstimulation, and just total exhaustion after any kind of social activity leading to a deep sense of need to be alone for a long time, like many many days in order to recover.
I think about this a lot about what it means because I used to mask everything so much that I could go all school semester passing as a normal human, just quirky. Then during break I would get sick and fall apart like my body was just waiting for permission to take a break.
Summers were always a time of much deeper depression and I think about it now as burnout. But I always pulled myself back together to perform the requisite behaviors.
Now I have given myself permission to give myself accommodations with regards to sensory overload and recovery after socializing, I recognize it better and understand more what I'm feeling. But that makes it seem like it's there * more *
Yes to stages!! If I try to do the thing immediately I will get lost in an inception of side quests. So I have tables in every room dedicated to "things that need to go in another place". Then when I'm going there, maybe I'll remember to grab one of them 😅
Yes to multiples of things in each room/my car!! Off the top of my head I can think of: phone chargers, cups of pens and scissors, fly swatter, fans, Chapstick, hair ties. If I have to move it, Ive lost it