Autistic inertia (again) and Processed Meats

Im off for the summer now and really struggling in that I've been in a complete state of inertia for nearly a week. What's also in the mix is a chronic fatigue-like health scenario. Sometimes the boundaries are blurred but if I were to put my finger on it, I'd say this is more AS related because I've been here time and again.

I can't get going with anything for love nor money. I've got plenty of things to be doing but can't start and don't know how to. I need a project to get my teeth into (of which is covered on the "things to be doing") but in my head I know it won't get finished if I start. I'm resorting to engaging with an interest but I've reached peak saturation on that. I'm flim flamming around and haven't got the attention to stick to anything (which I don't know if this is CFS related but I've experienced this before although it seems to be worse now).

I don't know if I'm in some sort of emotional burnout because I haven't experienced this stuckness for quite a while. What also adds is a sense that - I can't tell what my expectations of myself should be. When the fatigue is really thick, I know how to pace, but when I'm in this middle ground I don't know what to do but I see this more as autistic inertia. It's also the fact that I see others are able to structure their time off but I can't and I don't know if I'm putting pressure on myself to be a certain way.

I've asked for help with one thing and with other things could do with a bit of "shadowing" to motivate me but the obvious person to ask is busy working more than me and has their own stuff to do. 

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  • I'm afraid I don't have anything useful to add BUT I did just want to say that I really enjoyed the use of "Flim Flamming" that really made me chuckle. I will work to build this into my vocabulary because I really like it. Very satisfying words. 

  • You are a wise and an astute queen.  Rare, and impressive........and comforting - flim flam or otherwise.  Forgive me.....but I am comforted when I see people whom I admire, struggle as I do, and aren't afraid to share.  Thank you.

    Calm and steady.....don't be too critical of yourself.  Look at the calendar - it should be no surprise that you feel a little bit at sea at the moment - enjoy bobbing around (if you can) - some ferocious wind or current of desperate drive will inevitably catch your sails soon enough.  At that point, you'll be worrying that your focus has become too intense!

    I think our lives and emotions and capabilities are cyclical . . . Just allow your wheel to spin under it's own momentum for a while.  We know it comes good again soon enough.

  • Wow, it’s crazy that you’ve been locked out, it wasn’t that overboard, it is frustrated to not use the forum the way you’d like to..

    Anyways, I wish I knew what ‘Toulouse’ meant in that context, I thought it meant drunk but that didn’t make sense so I bowed out, not wanting to be a ‘Toulouse’ myself..Sweat smile

  • Please can you tell she is talking Pollocks in relation to her toulouse comment. I've been locked out of the thread (I posted saying I thought the forum was archaic in response to the uploading photos comments so it's probably banned me).

  • I have never been described that way before. I wasn't afraid to share. ...desperate if anything. You are very perceptive and I sense you know something I cannot see yet. However you are right. It did pick up a bit later today under its own steam. After I had finished off a documentary* it was noted by my lifetime house companion that I had perked up. Although definitely not out of the woods but it did make me see things start to right themselves of their own accord.

    *edited because I worry the previous comment together with the vase of flowers will give my identity away "IRL"

  • Ah number.. I opened an art thread on mental health and well-being, I’m trying to help a guy upload an image, using one of your old threads, please can you review if what I’m telling him is nonsense or not..? Please..Sweat smile

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