Drives me crazy!!
Basically, some people look for recipes. other people look for ideas to mess around with. You have to make it at least once with the actual recipe.

You answered my above question!

What is it phonetically?

Alexithymia is a beast.
The body will pay for it.

I have known you since I crowd sourced books for my reading intervention classes pre pandemic.
These days, my students reading needs are met on Epic and Libby. I can’t raise funds the way I used to.

Wise human, Alice.

Pardon me while I slap that on a hoodie for myself.

I asked a restaurant owner I worked for once if he appreciated good service with no errors or smiling airheads. He was honest. Smiling airheads.
Maybe because they were more likely to sleep with married men?

Apparently, I waited too long for ADHD meds. I was told when I went that it can’t be ADHD at my age, it must be early onset dementia.
That started at birth, I guess?

I am so glad I shifted gears when I did. The issues I deal with are so far removed from what I had been doing, and my current student population’s needs are so radically different.

I live .25 miles from the Azusa stop. We love it.

I’ve no argument with you, nor do I seek a fix for our neurotype.
I’m just a frustrated elder that sees a lot of nuance here. Like you, I am a late diagnosed adult, who parents two autistic kids (now adults). I taught general ed HS for 38 years and now teach mod/sev in a non public school.

I’m okay, honest. I just get frustrated because I’ve been working in Autism activism for 20 years now, and we need to be mindful of the fact that a very large percentage of us are not present in our social media conversations. I work with that population daily.

We need work on insomnia, hyperacusis, interoception issues, referred pain.
More research on AAC and more education provided to parents and teachers on how to use it.
More representation of all groups of AS humans in the conversation. It’s complex.

There is so much space in the convo. My students could definitely use some symptomatic relief. Life in this house is no picnic right now, and there are no supports available for our level of need (when spouse is working it is called housekeeping help).

I am often so deeply embarrassed by white people.

Here’s to those of us who burn with the stoke embers of uncorrected injustices, both large and small.

I think we hold on to those small ones because they are bearable to examine, as if by understanding them, we can figure out the more massively fucked up injustices like assaults by teachers.

Pretty sure that SSRIS/NRIS were all we had through the first two housing bubble bursts and mortgage crises in my old lifetime.
No matter what generation we are in, right now sucks.