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It's Thursday 05/01/2025. Hey, What's Going On! (lemmy.world)
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"Why can't you be normal!?" Oh, I see you chose option 3. Extremely Personal Info Dump.

This is a daily post for “casual” conversation. If you want to post or talk about something non autism related this is where to do it. For example if you want to info dump about your special interest but it doesn’t fall into “autism related” then you can post it here in the comments. All other rules are still active, be respectful to each other.

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[–] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 14 hours ago

Today is not the day to walk into the sea and let the water take me.

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago

May day celebrations here so we went to see some friends in a park. Kinda nice, kinda cold weather. Good to leave home though and spend time outside.

I feel like the worst wave of burnout is over for now and soon I'll have to start scraping things together. Having experienced this episode for 3rd time within a year I feel that i finally need to face the fact that I can't go on like this and need to start taking my limitations seriously. I went to an autism support group for the first time this week and it was a great experience! Will definitely go again.

The whole week has been quite rough, basically my work gigs were cancelled and all my work-related plans went down the drain after government decided to remove some tax benefits. The whole industry I work at is f*cked right now because of that and even if they decide to cancel the plan the season seems super grim for shops. But I've wanted to change direction for some time now so I guess this is when it happens. Many big things going on at the same time, but positive side is I'll have time for my own projects, and all this being a pretty clear "sign" that it's time to start making changes.

[–] mark@social.cool110.xyz 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

@Lexam It's election day again, so I get to be suspicious of everyone around me who are trying to get me killed.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Did you know you can be suspicious anytime? It's not just for holidays!