Daisybelle

Happy to pledge another 24.

Much love to you all. xx

Minion09

Neoo

Chilled Tune - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYKbIe5vO2A

Minion09

Minion09

CrossYourHeart

24

venuscat

I slept in.....it was just so lovely to be warm.
Late good morning and 24 more please and oodles of love to everyone. ♥

bandi ~ the condenser had a pull tag on it, cardboard (like 2 inches) that the installer missed.....so when the condenser tried to kick in it shut down the furnace.....amazing.

venuscat

Well you don't need to now....your name is there, but just right click the mouse honey and look at the little box that appears.....if you are using Chrome it says "refresh".....and you just click once.

venuscat

Awesome sauce.....thank you lovely one!!!

vanaprastha

24 more please.

Saskia

In for another 24

Bailey3

Good morning! I’m in!

Let’s all make it a sober day today.

kevlarsjal2

Checking in for today.

I'm feeling really weird and somewhat locked into my head which makes communicating to others difficult and exhausting. I'd love to post more because I like contributing to this place, it's full of love and support and helped me so, so much. But right now I am not really able to give more.

I hope this internal 'weirdness' will pass soon, right now I am a bit overwhelmed by it and mostly want to run away from everything. There are just too many complex emotions on my plate lately. Still recovering from the break up and accident, realising I had been blind to my ex's abusive behaviour, grieving the miscarriage, dealing with the Asperger's diagnose, my sober birthday approaching and then I think I may be in love a little bit with someone. I'm not even sure about that cause it's all just too much. My head is exploding and then I shut down.

I'm thinking of all of you and sending much love! I wish I was able to give back a little more right now. <3

Lostmyoffswitch

In for a sober 24 hours

venuscat

kev, so much love. You give just by being here.....you are an important part of this group and we need you. And we want to be there for you honey.....

I feel that you and I have so many parallels in our lives or maybe we just get each other....I understand your head.

You need to heal. Lots of healing, and yes, a new therapist/counsellor/good doctor who understands Aspergers. My beautiful 28 year old nephew has it....has had it all of his life. He is doing pretty well....he has support from his mum and fiance and all of us....he plays a lot of sport.....his way of dealing with being too in his head.

I had a meltdown two days ago.....bad.....shocked people in my life.....I was horrible....and it was all because I haven't been talking enough. Sharing enough. Keeping too many things in my head and yep, I did explode.

So stay with us and vent. And let's have a cup of herbal tea.....

OK, I am lying, I am making coffee. ♥♥

kevlarsjal2

Thanks for the support Dee! Well, she put it in a nicer way, saying that the things that she could help me to improve in (like social interaction, being less impulsive, less controlling or obsessive) I already learnt to deal with pretty well. Which is true. Right now I mostly struggle with sensory overload issues and emotion blindness which makes self care so difficult. She said that she wouldn't know how to help me with that and that she couldn't find any information on how to improve it. But maybe a specialist knows more.

Hi Willow! Thanks for saying and don't worry about me when I don't post, I have a tendency to sometimes disappear from SR when I don't find the time or energy to post but I always come back!

Thanks PJ, I will try and find a specialist if possible. Idk why but there's not much help available for adults with autism/Asperger's where I live. I found 2 self help groups which I will try though. Support to you too!

Hats

Another 24 for me please

Goat

Happy Friday everyone!

stargazer016

kevlarsjal2

Haha, you made me smile with that last sentence. I'm still easy on the caffeine so it'll be herbal tea for me!

Thank you Venus for always making me feel so welcome and appreciated, no matter what state I'm in

The way you treat all of us reminds me of what I once heard about people in Thailand (I might be wrong about the country though!) traditionally believing that everyone has their purpose and worth in life, no matter who they are or what they do. Not that people have to be productive or talented in any way to prove their right to exist like we tend to see it in the western culture.

And I also feel like you understand me, I appreciate that so much

It's really good to hear your nephew has found ways to make things work for him! Makes me a bit more hopeful again. Sports usually help me a great deal too but right now I'm back at a point where it's almost physically impossible.
I think some more support for that part of my recovery is definitely needed. I do need the support for my alcoholism and it has done miracles to how I deal with things and how I feel about myself.

Sorry to hear about your meltdown, I always get so scared of myself when that happens to me. Talking is so important, getting the thoughts and feelings out. Just now it's hard because they are so tangled that I have problems identifying them. And when I get too emotionally overwhelmed something in my head seems to stop working and I struggle with speech.

You're such a wonderful soul Venus, I'm so grateful to know you