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Difficult days

Oakling

I am experiencing a difficult day for reading people today. It’s an incredibly busy and challenging day at work today full of change. So much change that I can’t keep up and I don’t have to words to ask for help. As a result of the millions of plates I’m trying to keep spinning, I am completely unable to read peoples faces/intentions and am struggling with just about every interaction with another person. I do struggle with this area quite a lot, but it seems very prominent today.

Does anyone else experience days that are a lot harder than others? If so, what do you do to navigate it? I feel like I’m fighting a bit of a meltdown at the moment.

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  • Hope the last couple of days have been a bit easier. I think it is quite normal for us autistic people for some days to be harder than others. If I have a lot of stimulation or stressful situations to deal with, or something new to do actually, my brain compleltey loses the ablility to read other people and I can barely talk to them. I mean, I cant really read people anyway but on days like that even the little bit I can usually do I cant do

    I just try to go a bit easy on myself on those days and not expect too much of myself. Lots of music helps too and videos of things that calm me down 

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  • Hope the last couple of days have been a bit easier. I think it is quite normal for us autistic people for some days to be harder than others. If I have a lot of stimulation or stressful situations to deal with, or something new to do actually, my brain compleltey loses the ablility to read other people and I can barely talk to them. I mean, I cant really read people anyway but on days like that even the little bit I can usually do I cant do

    I just try to go a bit easy on myself on those days and not expect too much of myself. Lots of music helps too and videos of things that calm me down 

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  • in reply to Billy87

    Thanks for checking in. Things have  stayed about the same to be honest. Although things haven’t got any better, they haven’t got worse either, which is a positive. 

    I find reading people to be such a learned skill, something that requires focus and effort (probably why burnout happens). When we get tired, any skill requiring focus becomes more difficult. I can therefore see how relaxing and calming activities can be useful. I enjoy relaxing to music too. Calming videos too actually.