Proud Accomplishments

[alien girl]

I had the day off today, so instead of just laying around all day I finally got around to de-cluttering my room. I still have an entire closet to clean out, and a few drawers, so its a work in progress, but I at least started. Dusted and vacuumed too, and i do that like maybe twice a year. Its that bad.

i hate cleaning too

 

[alien girl]

Today I did fairly well at work! I've been trying to get better at talking to customers (even if its just getting better at scripting) and today I managed that for a good while. I even managed not to get intimidated by the managers that were up front today playing supervisor (of the cashiers, like me) cause we were so shorthanded today. One of them even called over to me and said hi to me when i was walking back to my locker. He's not my manager so i was surprised, and glad, he did that.

talking to customers sounds like having roots canal without novacaine to me.

 

[Etzelaire]

I am studying and staying fit, 2 things that have always been indirectly proportionate for me. I've found a reasonable equilibrium.

 

[Cali Cat]

terrible that your father was dying. really sorry to read this.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

i saved a sick kitten and took her home to live with me, Hazelnut. and she's healthy now. i hold down a job and run a blog. i learned self defense and learned to control my aspie rage attacks.

Bless you for saving Hazelnut. That's a great accomplishment.

Holding down a job is an accomplishment in itself. I always had problems with that. I wouldn't be able to do that and run a blog too. I'd love to learn martial arts ... maybe someday. Kudos to you for maintaining your self-discipline to control the rage attacks.

 

[AsheSkyler]

I cracked and shelled some of the bag of pecans I have gathered out of the yard over the past week! Woohoo! Maybe I can get some cookies for sure. I was convinced I'd just have a bag of nuts sitting on my counter and rotting for months before I finally dumped them back out into the yard. Take that, procrastination!

 

[forstem99]

If I had a goal checklist, here's what it would look like:
Making friends. Tick!
Managing anxiety/finding ways to get meltdowns smaller and smaller. Tick!
Talking in class. Tick!

So I've done a lot.
Thanks to a supportive special ed class, amazingly loyal friends and of course, my mum.
Learning more about asperger's also helped me.

That's so wonderful ExplosiveTMT. The first two are things I've not mastered so I'm encouraged by your success! I could never talk in class either.
I'm glad your mum was a good friend to you. So was mine. I miss her a lot.

 

[tree]

Last Saturday I went to the resale shop,
saw an interestingly patterned t-shirt.
It was blue.

There were some green ones that looked
good next to the blue one.

I managed to leave the store without any
of them.

It's not that I didn't have the $2 for a bag
of stuff. I love to batch up colors of clothing
to cut up. But I promised myself three years
ago that I wouldn't buy any more stuff to cut
up until I have finished & given away some
more of the things I have started.

 

[zurb]

Completed 3000 posts here, 2000 of which are in the games section. lol

 

[Astroganga]

It is now coming up to two months where I have kept the house consistently tidy, even though I have been unwell with various colds and viruses in that time.

 

[JeIIohamster]

I'm not sure if it's bad of me to post on a thread that hasn't been used since March of last year, but I've just accomplished what is probably the highlight of 2017 for me XD So on the Google Play store, there's this game called Pinkamena, which is basically about you having to strategically defend a town of ponies (Yeah, it's a MLP game, ooops) from a murderer named Pinkamena and 4 others. It's kind of like a cross between Oregon Trail and Clue. Anyways, the creator of the game has posted that there's 1 achievement that no one has ever gotten before: winning the game without any of the innocent ponies dying. Well, a few days after he posted that... I miraculously won the game without any ponies dying, and got the achievement. Sure, it was mostly just luck... BUT I'm still pretty proud of it c:

 

[Alcyon]

Jellohamster , thanks for bringing this thread back. I like a positive vibe: it can be contagious.

There are a few things I've done over the long term that I'm proud of; I don't know if that's the intention here.

Short term, this weekend I was able to visit my parents, twice! And all went well, no friction.

I'm working on developing a healthier sleep pattern: over the last three weeks, I have been doing well. That's a big deal for me, both for physical and mental health.

 

[Mr Allen]

I emailed my application form to The Chase last week, hopefully I'll get on the show, I think i could beat Mark Labett, or that fat bint who calls herself the Governess.

I also plan to get into "proper" work this year somehow, don't get me wrong 20 odd years of voluntary work's been a laugh, but I feel ready for paid work now.

 

[Alcyon]

At various points today, I had urges to buy..."stuff". Things that I don't need, and this is what bothers me, that I don't really want.

I was able to, as they say, "play the tape forward"; in other words, look past the immediate urge. Do I really need this? How do I think I'll feel? How do I always feel after? How will I feel about myself if I don't give in?

So I bought the one thing I genuinely needed: supper. And left the rest for another day.

Yay me!

 

[xudo]

or that fat bint who calls herself the Governess.

I don't want to sound like I'm looking for an argument, but is there really any need for calling her a "fat bint"? Also you may be interested to know that she is an aspie.

As for things that I'm proud of, I managed to go and get a few bits of shopping today without wearing headphones. I would normally have them on full blast, but I've been trying to stop at least when I'm in the shop as then I won't get so startled if someone tries to stop me to chat (our only local shop is the sainsbury's my husband works at, and he's signed off at the moment so his colleagues always want to ask me how he is). It also means that I don't look antisocial if someone says hi or whatever and I ignore them because I can't hear them.

 

[toothless]

xudo, have you ever thought of using ear defenders? they allow you to hear voices [well they do with me anyway] but they numb other sound, i know aspie adults tend not to like them as they look very different to head phones and can make you stand out but i couldnt recommend them enough they help me access the community without them id not be able to go into stores or walk down the street.

proud things...
i am very proud of becoming verbal in my late twenties,i struggle greatly to speak but at least i can converse now.sometimes i wish i was still non verbal but it was a huge burden on me,people ignore you even more than they normally do being LFA and its very difficult to converse in PECS or makaton,plus people dont wait for you to converse in text on the laptop or a communication device,they rudely look at what your trying to say and fill in the gaps almost always getting it wrong but its the equivilent of butting in constantly.

 

[xudo]

xudo, have you ever thought of using ear defenders? they allow you to hear voices [well they do with me anyway] but they numb other sound, i know aspie adults tend not to like them as they look very different to head phones and can make you stand out but i couldnt recommend them enough they help me access the community without them id not be able to go into stores or walk down the street.

I actually bought some ear plugs today! They're only cheap ones, but I thought I would give them a go when I go to town tomorrow. I've read that you can get ones (can't remember the exact name) which allow you to block out like background noises but hear when people speak to you, so I plan to look into those.

 

[Alcyon]

I noticed a lump in my mouth a few weeks ago. Smokers generally don't like finding lumps in an orifice used for smoking.

Rather than give in to the temptation to imagine the worst, I did the things I had to do: make an appointment with my doctor and examine my thinking. As it turned out, I had a stone in a salivary duct which passed (I pushed it out) a couple of nights ago. CBT/Stoicism saved the day again!

 

[Full Steam]

I figured out in December that I was aspergers.

This is after 27 years of trying to figure out what was going on, and I'm 47 now.

For the last 3 years I have made in my main priority to figure it all out since it was causing so many problems.

I did it all myself, with research online, and a single, helpful, but incorrect specialist diagnosis.

My allergist suggested that all my fatigue and depression symptoms could be sulphite sensitivities,and that was the start of figuring it all out.

I removed all sulphite from my diet, but was still not right, but much better. That lead me in a round about way to methylation cycle problems.

I learned enough about the methylation cycle, Snps and support to reverse engineer and test my own symptoms (we could not afford specialist help or gene testing at the time but we are doing it now.)

Learning about methylation means you trip over autism all the time, and after a conversion with a friend I looked into aspergers,and it all fell into place.

I now know I am aspergers, with methylation issues which cause the chemical sensitivity.

If I hadn't made it my mission I would never have figured it out.

 

[Alcyon]

After a long period of staying away from alcohol, a few years back I thought I would give drinking another try. The diagnosis of my having Asperger's had more than a little to do with it, I think. Almost immediately went right back to my old ways, except I had more money, so I could do a lot more damage to myself. A lot.

It took two years to bring it to an end, but today makes it four years sober. I sure have learned quite a bit about myself and recovery along the way.

I believe I will buy myself a nice dessert, and maybe something else nice.

 

[Alcyon]

Today there were two accomplishments that I am (very) modestly proud of, both to do with communication. When I got a phone call from my parents, I didn't make excuses, I picked up and had a little chat. A recovery friend reached out; he wanted to get together for coffee and conversation: I went!

To the average person, these don't seem like much, but-and this is my motto-I am a big fan of small victories. So I am awarding myself three pats on the pack: two for the above, and an extra, because I impress myself.