Ancestors

Written by not sam on 2024-11-24 at 12:43

Just had an #anxiety overwhelm moment while looking at my to-do list, so I put it down and found myself looking around my room. I had to stop myself from doing that and just close my eyes and curl up instead, because every object in my room is automatically linked to multiple thoughts and associations, many of which are Things I Should Do.

I found myself thinking of a past therapist who often encouraged me to do a ’name five things you can see' activity to deal with anxiety, and how unhelpful I found it.

A strong pattern with my #autism is getting caught up with and overwhelmed by my own thoughts, which can certainly run wild on their own but are also easily triggered by things I perceive around me, and I wonder if anyone else #actuallyautistic can relate to this and find commonly recommended sensory grounding methods, presumably helpful for many people, to be totally useless or even harmful.

@actuallyautistic

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Written by Roldán Belenos on 2024-11-24 at 17:32

@samiam @actuallyautistic

Do you find it difficult to get rid of things because the stuff you need to throw out •has its own emotions•? ... Like, WTF is wrong with my brain? ... But my house is getting junky and it gets more paralyzing the junkier it gets, and now I know how people unintentionally become hoarders.

Anyway, I find it hard to kill things that aren't alive and so I'm the one suffering.

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Toot

Written by Sarah Arnold on 2024-11-24 at 19:28

@roldan_belenos @samiam @actuallyautistic This is really common: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594/

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Descendants

Written by not sam on 2024-11-24 at 19:32

@sejarnold @roldan_belenos @actuallyautistic oh man. Now I have to read it 😭

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Written by Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama on 2024-11-24 at 19:32

@sejarnold @roldan_belenos @samiam @actuallyautistic

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So what’s the opposite trait? DGAF about mere “things?”

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We look at the world and we think caring about “things,” is some weird trait? Why are we talking about the carers, is what I’m saying, why is that a thing, and the opposite isn’t?

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