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Stickmen helping to build understanding and acceptance of hidden disabilities and chronic illness, in a way that empowers us. (Run by Hannah Ensor - who has #hypermobility #PoTS and probably other stuff.) +talking about personal experience of #disability
I used to feel guilty about closing for 2 weeks at Christmas but it's really helpful. By stopping work I reduce my everyday demands, and so have the energy to add in some Christmas festivity instead, and be able to enjoy it, rather than it being extra demands that I can't cope with.
December 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I used to feel guilty about closing for 2 weeks at Christmas but it's really helpful. By stopping work I reduce my everyday demands, and so have the energy to add in some Christmas festivity instead, and be able to enjoy it, rather than it being extra demands that I can't cope with.
This year we plan to close for Christmas on Thursday 18th at midday(ish) then reopen on Friday 2nd Jan. Orders placed during this time will be processed when we reopen in January.
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This year we plan to close for Christmas on Thursday 18th at midday(ish) then reopen on Friday 2nd Jan. Orders placed during this time will be processed when we reopen in January.
Today has been one of those days that's too busy for ideal pacing - so while I've been able to take short breaks, move about regularly, sit quietly and zone out for a bit a few times, and used various aids, I've not had a proper break. So this evening is one big time-out relaxation chill time -
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Today has been one of those days that's too busy for ideal pacing - so while I've been able to take short breaks, move about regularly, sit quietly and zone out for a bit a few times, and used various aids, I've not had a proper break. So this evening is one big time-out relaxation chill time -
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if you struggle to get stuff done when you don’t feel like it (or know someone who does and still needs a present), The Anti-Planner has:
✔ 165+ activities, strategies, and games
✔ no guilt
✔ no cliche advice
✔ just brain hacks that actually work from someone who's been there
anti-planner.com
✔ 165+ activities, strategies, and games
✔ no guilt
✔ no cliche advice
✔ just brain hacks that actually work from someone who's been there
anti-planner.com
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November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
if you struggle to get stuff done when you don’t feel like it (or know someone who does and still needs a present), The Anti-Planner has:
✔ 165+ activities, strategies, and games
✔ no guilt
✔ no cliche advice
✔ just brain hacks that actually work from someone who's been there
anti-planner.com
✔ 165+ activities, strategies, and games
✔ no guilt
✔ no cliche advice
✔ just brain hacks that actually work from someone who's been there
anti-planner.com
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
I always need extra Time Outs over Christmas. These give me space to breathe, regroup, acknowledge my symptom levels and plan how to manage them - like wearing ear plugs, lying down, moving, about, using my wheelchair etc.
Here's to lots of breaks for everyone who needs them! #Fatigue #Overwhelm
Here's to lots of breaks for everyone who needs them! #Fatigue #Overwhelm
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I always need extra Time Outs over Christmas. These give me space to breathe, regroup, acknowledge my symptom levels and plan how to manage them - like wearing ear plugs, lying down, moving, about, using my wheelchair etc.
Here's to lots of breaks for everyone who needs them! #Fatigue #Overwhelm
Here's to lots of breaks for everyone who needs them! #Fatigue #Overwhelm
I was reminded recently how important it is to recognise that with chronic illness and neurodivergence, what recharges me in one symptom level/scenario, might overload me in another. Cross stitch can totally recharge me in one symptom level/symptom combination, and be way too much in another. -
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I was reminded recently how important it is to recognise that with chronic illness and neurodivergence, what recharges me in one symptom level/scenario, might overload me in another. Cross stitch can totally recharge me in one symptom level/symptom combination, and be way too much in another. -
Excellent news! We are now shipping to the USA again! - Shipping prices are slightly up as we have to pay an additional fee and there's a maximum order value of £60 due to the tariffs, but at least we can ship there again!
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Excellent news! We are now shipping to the USA again! - Shipping prices are slightly up as we have to pay an additional fee and there's a maximum order value of £60 due to the tariffs, but at least we can ship there again!
Off to get a new wheelchair. First NHS chair - so it won't be as good as my current one, but current one is falling apart, and replacement is about £3k - that I just don't have. But it should work - and possibly have a better seat position. mixed feelings. Will update about it when I'm ready to.
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Off to get a new wheelchair. First NHS chair - so it won't be as good as my current one, but current one is falling apart, and replacement is about £3k - that I just don't have. But it should work - and possibly have a better seat position. mixed feelings. Will update about it when I'm ready to.
One hidden challenge of #AutonomicDysfunction is heat intolerance - the body can't cope with being too warm, and it causes all sorts of symptoms (for me: brain fog, coordination loss, speech and word finding difficulties, and reduced consciousness). It often catches me by surprise in winter. -
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One hidden challenge of #AutonomicDysfunction is heat intolerance - the body can't cope with being too warm, and it causes all sorts of symptoms (for me: brain fog, coordination loss, speech and word finding difficulties, and reduced consciousness). It often catches me by surprise in winter. -
Oh my. Just had an excellently productive zoom call....but it was nearly two hours and I forgot to move! OW! Totally didn't notice the pain during it. I don't when I'm concentrating. Now it's done...OW! I think in the future I might keep a copy of this on my laptop or desk as a reminder!
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Oh my. Just had an excellently productive zoom call....but it was nearly two hours and I forgot to move! OW! Totally didn't notice the pain during it. I don't when I'm concentrating. Now it's done...OW! I think in the future I might keep a copy of this on my laptop or desk as a reminder!
I really do love spending time at events with a high proportion of autistic people! I always meet a few kindred spirits there. Sunday's Bicester Autism Craft Fair was, as usual, lovely. Exhausting, but lovely. I only took a few sample cards and the status squares, and a stack of leaflets though -
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I really do love spending time at events with a high proportion of autistic people! I always meet a few kindred spirits there. Sunday's Bicester Autism Craft Fair was, as usual, lovely. Exhausting, but lovely. I only took a few sample cards and the status squares, and a stack of leaflets though -
At the Bicester autism craft fair - lovely stuff as usual. I have a massively paced down stall because it’s all I can manage at the mo - alongside my sister-in-law’s fab 3D creatures. Come visit at littlebury hotel, kings end, Bicester! 11-3pm.
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
At the Bicester autism craft fair - lovely stuff as usual. I have a massively paced down stall because it’s all I can manage at the mo - alongside my sister-in-law’s fab 3D creatures. Come visit at littlebury hotel, kings end, Bicester! 11-3pm.
It's been a busy day - happy but busy. By midday I needed to rest- once relaxed I completely flolloped, couldn't face moving. Not quite asleep, not quite awake. 2 hours later I started to emerge, and by 4pm felt SO much better. Society mistakenly makes us think stepping back is a failure, but -
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's been a busy day - happy but busy. By midday I needed to rest- once relaxed I completely flolloped, couldn't face moving. Not quite asleep, not quite awake. 2 hours later I started to emerge, and by 4pm felt SO much better. Society mistakenly makes us think stepping back is a failure, but -
Christmas decorations are up! And the rain. All the grey winter rain. I’m so thankful for the cosiness that brightens it! - I even quite like the rain when I can watch it from warm, dry, cosiness.
Also loving being able to see it from bed and living room! #studioFlat #disability
Also loving being able to see it from bed and living room! #studioFlat #disability
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Christmas decorations are up! And the rain. All the grey winter rain. I’m so thankful for the cosiness that brightens it! - I even quite like the rain when I can watch it from warm, dry, cosiness.
Also loving being able to see it from bed and living room! #studioFlat #disability
Also loving being able to see it from bed and living room! #studioFlat #disability
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Pavement parking is a real issue across the UK. People don't want to block the road, and so they park on the pavement. Which makes sense - until you realise that this usually means making the path so narrow it becomes impossible for wheelchair users and pushchairs to get past!
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Pavement parking is a real issue across the UK. People don't want to block the road, and so they park on the pavement. Which makes sense - until you realise that this usually means making the path so narrow it becomes impossible for wheelchair users and pushchairs to get past!
Pavement parking is a real issue across the UK. People don't want to block the road, and so they park on the pavement. Which makes sense - until you realise that this usually means making the path so narrow it becomes impossible for wheelchair users and pushchairs to get past!
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Pavement parking is a real issue across the UK. People don't want to block the road, and so they park on the pavement. Which makes sense - until you realise that this usually means making the path so narrow it becomes impossible for wheelchair users and pushchairs to get past!
My PA helped me give the floor in my room a proper clean for the first time since I moved in, and sort out a few more things into proper places. A tidy/clean space really does help me, especially when my fatigue Is high. So thankful.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My PA helped me give the floor in my room a proper clean for the first time since I moved in, and sort out a few more things into proper places. A tidy/clean space really does help me, especially when my fatigue Is high. So thankful.
Although in some ways I'm very good at self management - I find I easily forget strategies if I don't use them for a while. And if I'm really stressed. Cards like these can give a much needed - and comforting - reminder of how to help myself.
I love this particular exercise for overwhelm and pain.
I love this particular exercise for overwhelm and pain.
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Although in some ways I'm very good at self management - I find I easily forget strategies if I don't use them for a while. And if I'm really stressed. Cards like these can give a much needed - and comforting - reminder of how to help myself.
I love this particular exercise for overwhelm and pain.
I love this particular exercise for overwhelm and pain.
One challenge of having a disability that means you sometimes struggle to speak, is that it also means you can't tell people when you can't speak!! I find these Status Squares so helpful in allowing me to let whoever I'm interacting with know - without needing to try and talk.
#Fatigue #Autism
#Fatigue #Autism
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Spending time with someone else who also experiences brain-fog can be quite special. There's no need to explain. A look and a nod can be all that is needed. It's can still be very inconvenient- but it's met with a shared acknowledgement that this is a limitation that is part of our lives -
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Spending time with someone else who also experiences brain-fog can be quite special. There's no need to explain. A look and a nod can be all that is needed. It's can still be very inconvenient- but it's met with a shared acknowledgement that this is a limitation that is part of our lives -
I can’t believe how mild it’s been! Went out for a wheel this afternoon, and it was beautiful.
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I can’t believe how mild it’s been! Went out for a wheel this afternoon, and it was beautiful.
We have many cards relevant to autism, all of them created because autistic people asked for them - and had a say in the design. Below are a few of them. Many more can be found on our website - 'browse by condition' - 'autism' section. www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/autism
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We have many cards relevant to autism, all of them created because autistic people asked for them - and had a say in the design. Below are a few of them. Many more can be found on our website - 'browse by condition' - 'autism' section. www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/autism
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This is such an important concept for many of us disabled people: Sometimes we can do something - and other times we can't. We aren't lying or being dramatic, we genuinely sometimes can't. And, ironically, often the reason we can't do something now is *because* we did it before. For example,
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is such an important concept for many of us disabled people: Sometimes we can do something - and other times we can't. We aren't lying or being dramatic, we genuinely sometimes can't. And, ironically, often the reason we can't do something now is *because* we did it before. For example,
This is such an important concept for many of us disabled people: Sometimes we can do something - and other times we can't. We aren't lying or being dramatic, we genuinely sometimes can't. And, ironically, often the reason we can't do something now is *because* we did it before. For example,
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is such an important concept for many of us disabled people: Sometimes we can do something - and other times we can't. We aren't lying or being dramatic, we genuinely sometimes can't. And, ironically, often the reason we can't do something now is *because* we did it before. For example,