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Catzilla is tired and requires a nap

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The Mother of All Snowflakes WIP #1

Pattern by Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n Thread

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I’ve been itching to get back to cross stitching for a while now. I have one all planned out for a friend, but I can’t find my white aida cloth to start. At least, I think it’s big enough for what I need. Not working makes things challenging when needing to purchase supplies. The black aida I purchased earlier this year was just a bit to narrow for what I need, so I decided to repurpose it. To snowflakes, of course! Did a little Google search, found this free pattern and here I am. Also, black aida is a bitch to work on. it feels like a miniature litebrite. I’m a quarter done with it after starting on Friday, which is weird to think. It’s been good for keeping my hands and mind busy, especially with the wife having seizures off and on all day. She was supposed to have an ambulatory EEG this weekend, but our outlets in our 1950s house are too small to accommodate what the tech needed to plug the camera into. Now we get to schedule a 72 hour EEG at the hospital in the middle of respiratory disease hell season. Weeee!

In better news, our plumbing is getting replaced tomorrow. Or rather, the plumbing replacement process starts tomorrow. Jackhammering at 8 am! Who doesn’t love getting woken up to jackhammering right next to the bedroom? Although I just thought of something. Wife’s seizures have been sound triggered as well; this could get really messy.

Wall of cats

hungry piggy

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Me rn

you ever just sit in your bed not being able to relax bc you can’t hyperfixate on one distinct thing and instead your brain is scattered to the wind on various pieces of media and now you’re stuck in limbo bc you literally need a hyperfixation in order to function as a normal person and if you don’t have one you fall into a depressive state where you become numb to everything around you??

The saga continues! Today my wife was supposed to get set up for an ambulatory EEG. The woman came out to set it up, but our outlets are too old and can’t accommodate the equipment. Her neurologist is now setting up a 72 hour EEG hospital stay.

At least our lives are never dull.

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes for my wife. We’re home and she’s on some meds until her EEG this weekend. I’m actually on hold with her doctor now to figure out a plan med wise.

Yesterday was stressful but I think the time at home with no answers and a tiny med supply for possible seizures is scarier.

I know we’ll get through this and get some answers. Just need to keep moving forward.

We are finally in a room. It took 4 hours, which isn’t the worst we’ve experienced. Luckily they’re calling her neurologist. Maybe we’ll actually figure this ish out.

Wife and I are at the ER. She’s been having what her neurologist (our neurologist? We see the same guy) think are seizures. She’s been having small tremors off and on since February. We think it was caused by Paxil, which she rapid detoxed from under medical care a few months ago.

Today the whole body tremors/shaking are constant. With all her medical issues, I try to stay positive and strong. We do it for each other.

Hubby is at home getting cleaning done for the plumbing. It’s just another day in our life. It’s weird.

They came over to get her vitals updated. The tech/nurse said she wasn’t having seizures because she’s conscious through them. But he’s “not a doctor.” Never mind that her neurologist thinks they could be. If someone can’t diagnose legally, they really shouldn’t be telling a patient and family that they aren’t experiencing something they could easily be experiencing.

Sigh.

Wife and I are at the ER. She’s been having what her neurologist (our neurologist? We see the same guy) think are seizures. She’s been having small tremors off and on since February. We think it was caused by Paxil, which she rapid detoxed from under medical care a few months ago.

Today the whole body tremors/shaking are constant. With all her medical issues, I try to stay positive and strong. We do it for each other.

Hubby is at home getting cleaning done for the plumbing. It’s just another day in our life. It’s weird.

We’re still in the waiting room. It’s insanely busy. And the tremors are getting worse. Yay for cold and flu season…

Wife and I are at the ER. She’s been having what her neurologist (our neurologist? We see the same guy) think are seizures. She’s been having small tremors off and on since February. We think it was caused by Paxil, which she rapid detoxed from under medical care a few months ago.

Today the whole body tremors/shaking are constant. With all her medical issues, I try to stay positive and strong. We do it for each other.

Hubby is at home getting cleaning done for the plumbing. It’s just another day in our life. It’s weird.

Wife and I are at the ER. She’s been having what her neurologist (our neurologist? We see the same guy) think are seizures. She’s been having small tremors off and on since February. We think it was caused by Paxil, which she rapid detoxed from under medical care a few months ago.

Today the whole body tremors/shaking are constant. With all her medical issues, I try to stay positive and strong. We do it for each other.

Hubby is at home getting cleaning done for the plumbing. It’s just another day in our life. It’s weird.

Hello everyone,

So I know many of you are still in school, so I’m going to share some tips that I think might help.

• If you can, try to work ahead. That way, you’ll have less stress on you hands.

• Make a to-do list of your school work. That way, you’ll be a bit more organized and not so overwhelmed.

• Don’t be afraid to ask your instructor for help. After all, that’s what they’re for, right?

• If you’d like, you also ask for some extra credit (if your instructor allows it). This will give you extra points and make you grade better.

• If you have issues with studying (like me lol) you can try and find a study group that might help. Like you and your friends can study together. It’s better that studying alone in my opinion.

• If you need accommodations, talk to your instructor about it. Like if you need some extra time on tests, or needing to sit near the front of the class if you can’t see well.

That’s all the tips I can think of at the moment.

This is coming from my own experience in school/college, so some tips may not be as helpful as others. But I hope you all find it helpful in some way.

Tips for School

Y’all, our plumber came by today. I’m so excited. Work on the plumbing system starts next week.

Short back story, we have two functioning toilets and one working sink. In a household of 7! Not ok. The house was built in 1955 and has original pipes (cast iron) that are crumbling. I have never been more excited about people jackhammering at 8 am on a Monday than I am now.

You know I had to do it to em

Things to think about and ponder

fully personal opinion

see many autistic people online treat someone calling self “high functioning” as a red flag, and some view it more extremely as irredeemable and make immediate assumption about person.

and i don’t… fully agree?

like of course see where they come from. there definitely are autistic people who identify as “high functioning” (high functioning autism, HFA) or “aspie” to separate self from the other autistics because they look down on other autistics. others may even believe HFA is this new evolutionary goal and people with HFA and only high functioning autism is better than everyone else, allistics included. they are yucky.

i carefully curate n select my internet experience because know if get mad, won’t be able to step away. so i don’t see these people much at all online. also because of dominant views in online autism community, these aspie supremacy HFA people don’t really participate in online actually autistic community.

but the reason i say i dont fully agree is because….

for so long me as a higher support needs level 2/3 austistuc and my friends who are similar or have more support needs as me & may be labeled “low functioning”, we been spoken over in online autistic community. dominant view of autism in online actually autistic community say every autistic all the same just mask differently or stuff like that. can look at my other posts for more context.

so, i really do appreciate when… how to say… an autistic respond to my posts say “i’m high functioning and i agree/thank you for bringing light to issue/etc etc.”

like. call themself as “high functioning” to, yes, separate themselves from me, not in the “im better than you i worth more than you”, but in the way of “i acknowledge me being/being seen as high functioning means i have different experiences than you, and on higher support needs/level2 3/low functioning issues i don’t have the lived experience and i need to listen.”

like i fully appreciate the latter, you know?

it’s also okay to say like. “while i don’t identify as high functioning, i do acknowledge i am often seen as high functioning, and that means i get treated better than those called low functioning.”

anticipate some people will say “well there still are better terms out there, like low support needs.” and the thing is, high functioning, levels, and support needs may all be trying to describe similar things, but they don’t neatly translate to each other. they don’t exactly mean same thing. “high functioning” doesn’t necessarily always mean low support needs.

and it not my place to tell other people how to self identify!

also because, i do like functioning labels when voluntarily used as self descriptor.

so, TLDR, i do oppose professionals & other people forcibly labeling autistics with functioning labels, i do hate those aspie supremacist high functioning autistics. but i think there is more nuance (always more nuance) to the “call self high functioning = bad” conversation. sometimes really do appreciate when someone self describe use “high functioning” to note difference in autistic experiences.

idk just personal thoughts. idk make sense.

It almost seems like non-disabled people have a harder time accepting when a chronically disabled person will never get better - and maybe even deteriorate over time, than the affected person has.

"Aww don't lose hope"

There is no hope to be had? Stop pushing your toxic positivity down my throat when I have come to terms with my situation and am grieving already.

Losing hope is what has given me an ounce of peace of mind. This is what life is now. It's not your grief, it's mine.

crazy that Goncharov (1973) will be 50 years old in a few months because it seems like it just came out yesterday

goncharov memes for your consideration

We’ve taught our children this and it’s amazing to watch them grow into emotionally healthy people.

Can we normalize asking children if we can hug them?

Children deserve a right to make decisions about this sort of thing. Forcing children to hug or kiss relatives they don’t want to can not only be upsetting, but also teaches them that they should do things they’re not comfortable with to not hurt someone’s feelings. I don’t think I have to spell out why that’s a problem.

Teaching children about this is good for their emotional well being but also teaches them about consent both giving and receiving it.

Putting powdered sugar on the post below

Taylor Swift about her creative process on Jimmy Fallon (2022)

If you're not on Twitter following the fake Twitter Blue accounts drama... I'd say i feel bad for you but I'm providing you with the best screenshots here so you don't have to feel left out

La de la reina

Newsweek

Iran protesters defy regime to mark "Bloody Friday" as 15,000 face death

Demonstrators in Zahedan reportedly took to the streets as anger against the ruling regime in the Islamic republic continues.

MSN

Iran May Be Planning to Quickly Execute Protesters, NGO Warns

Protests have erupted in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after she was arrested for wearing a hijab authorities co

Please reblog this. In cases where regimes refrain from committing human rights violations out of fear of publicity, it's not because a few people knew about it. It's because the whole world is watching. We need to make the whole world aware of this.

The Eras Tour Presale 11/15/22 pt 2

Having ADHD, I’ve never felt like I took good or pretty notes like other people in school. I still don’t feel like I do, but this coding class I’m in makes me look like I can take notes like anyone else! Now if only I understood it better…

Bilateral gynandromorph muslin moth (Diaphora mendica) [x]

I’m dealing with this myself right now. I know I’ve had food issues all my life but wth body? Why now? What’s triggering it? The idea of food is sometimes meh or icky, but when I’m eating safe foods I’m usually okay. Even my gag reflex has been hypersensitive lately. I blame hormones and the autism.

I felt this…

Autism

ADHD

Hunger

Ded

“— the problem it’s me.”