Thrive or just survive?

Thanks :)

Thank you

Thank you Desmond :)

Happy to chat if u need to xx

Hang in there, Emily. Don't give up until the miracle happens. 

Emily, I send you a hug

Hi I feel like I'm surviving, well falling is more like it. Last year I went into hospital 4 times and overdosed twice. Still surviving. Maybe one day I'll strive.

I also have 2 children and a partner, so i guess things could be worse aye. 

The ADHD & fibro alongside my autism is wat makes things harder for me.

Thanks for your reply.

I am 52 and awaiting diagnosis. I have thrived at some points. I was on in Junior school, hated senior school, thrived when I first went to work at 18.  I then lost a job I loved at 21 and just survived until my late 20's. 2020 was the end of my latest thriving and now I am just surviving. I am now just waiting for my mum to pass on so I can sell up and move soemwhere cheaper and be debt and mortgage free so I can thrive again. My life has certianlly gone in cycles.

At home I have a husband and two sons so looking after them mainly.  I also enjoy reading, puzzles and watching repeat comedies on the TV.  At home I can just be myself completely - no pretending and that helps.  It also helps that it doesn't involve other people at home.

I am 51,  I am awaiting diagnosis, just surviving presently, financial struggles due to my eyesight prevent me from working much.

I am going through bankruptcy for the second time, thankfully the house is my wife's name and her dad's.

I am learning to live differently,  I have a friend who has lived with autism for many years now, trying to learn new things and new coping strategies.

The old 5 days a week ratrace was never for me, I want to do something more meaningful in life.

Both.

The sensory issues have led to medical anxieties extraordinaire. Survive? Survival has literally been on the line.

But you want positive stories; I have those aplenty too :-). The sense of moral justice and lack of interest in status (possibly big time fueled by the play ground bullies of my childhood) that comes with the terrain fired me into a career in training in Equality/Diversity and victim care I hope did some good for some one.

My hyperfocus gives me untold joy in my hobbies (guess they are classified as special interests now) and academic success and a career worth having (albeit not in monetary terms). I have given pleasure to so many cousins and friends by cracking that geanological brick wall no one else could or designing a pair of crochet socks just for them

And I have LOVED! Unconventionally perhaps. Thinking rather than feeling my way to the needs of others perhaps, but I have loved and little oddball, quirk that I am, been loved in return.

No matter what the sensorary pains, no matter that my life may be shorter than others, I would not swap the dyslexic and autistic brain the Divine in her infinate wisdom gave me, for all the tea in China.

Others will not always understand you. Love anyway. Be anyway. Live anyway.

Xx

As long as you’re happy, comfortable and surviving that’s all that matters 

What do u enjoy to do when you are at home?

I still struggle at home x

Yeah anxiety and depression are really bad for me too.

Definitely just survive.  I thrive at home when I don't have to go anywhere but once I have to step outside my door I only just survive. 

I was diagnosed as an adult & still feel like I havent accepted it fully.

No not alot, hope u get to tick some of them off ur list.

Become less isolated, can't go on the way my life is currently.  Looking into clubs/activities I can join and maybe volunteering in the near term.  Ultimately aiming to have a friend or two, maybe eventually a girlfriend/wife, get a job that pays enough to live.  Is that a lot to expect out of life?  IDK, I can but dream.

Diagnosed as a child; over thirty years ago.

Only other problems are mental health issues and obesity.