Published on 12, July, 2020
Iv decided to do a forum on my wildlife holidays where I can tell you about my holiday rather than just sending pictures
cause iv been on lots of them this year rather than only sending photos. also proper trips il tell you about and add photos to go with it on this post aswell. cause it will be easyer and better for me but is also for holidays cause im going on lots of holidays this year and it deserves its own thread in this sense.
my first holiday I went on this year was Wales. I went to Snowdonia near the national park
we saw a lamma and a pony
with the view we got from the cottage we stayed in was of the sea
Jackdaws perched on the buildings when we watched tv we went for a walk and I got great pictures of the moutains
you could see them on the beach outline at the beach the waves I saw a literally called gray heron fly past
the waves crashed against the rocks and became fully submerged until they broke and forced its way over. my long lens saved my life by getting me up close enough to photograph the waders and I saw Great crested grebes.
back at the cottage herring gulls at Jackdaws
the next day we went to the waterfalls I saw yellow gorse.
the water level was high but not flooded. it was a adventure and the gorse made it look colourful
it was massive then we went down the mountain the next day we went to the sea again and I saw a cormerent. there was lots of bladder wrack which is a type of seaweed.
seaweed are actualy a type of algae. some can surve out the water for a certain period of time. others dont survive as well it depends on the type cause theres different types of seaweed.
this one is normaly mistake for seaweed but is actualy a type of animal instead
in July
im very used to wildlife watching in the uk and while I have been to menorca I havnt wildlife watched there cause I didnt have an interest in Wildlife then so this was my first time wildlife watching in a different country.
I allways have to wear ear defenders when i go to the air port but they had disability asistance. I had to improvise cause the person that supports me that went with me hasnt gone on holiday with me before and didnt know what to say or do with my sensory challanges at the airport. the person that was with me said she thinks il be fine but I knew cause of my autism cant deal with crowds so I said I have autism and I dont like crowds so would it be ok to go where its less busy or quiter and so she took me through. there was a point where we wernt sure if I had to take my ear defenders off at the part where you have to walk through and them see if you got metal on you so I asked the lady there if I could keep them on and she went off to ask the person behind the thing you have to walk through. I was very anxious at this point. it was time to put our items on the coveyerbelt and walk through the metal thing. The person with me for the holiday and me still didnt know so I was panicing inside and i was told to take them off by the person taking me which i was reluctant to do but the plaine lady came over and thumbed up us saying not to take them off and that i can keep them on and we went through. the flight was delayed by an hour. but it was no ones fault cause they had to help somone who couldnt walk onto the plane. so we walked and stopped every 5 minutes so people were joking about that and inpatient at the same time. eventually we got on though at last. I filmed the take off and we went over the bay of biscay on the way to Tenerife
when landing I saw mount tede from above the clouds.
the next day I saw a canarian chiffchaff
and I saw a Spanish sparrow for the first time. they were breeding at the hotel.
but one of my biggest highlights was snorkeling for the very first time
and the dolphins which i got to see for the very first time
and mount tede a active volcano with many species only found on that mountain I saw crystal on a rock
that was the last day. the next day we went on a trip but when it came to packing bags for the trip. I put my bag with the plastic bag on it ontop of my suitcase then gave it to her with the plastic bag on it but took it off and thought that she was going to put the bag in cause it didnt only have my stuff in the bag and as far as I knew the plastic bag was in the boot but at some point in the journey I wondered where the bag was and thought it might be in the boot cause i couldnt see it in the back. we checked the boot and it wasnt there.
my ear defenders got left behind which was problomatic cause the person with me wasnt willing to go back and get the ear defenders and soon we had to go to the air port. I was highly anxious and I found it diffucult getting her to understand the why it is important enough that we do have to go back anf get them we bought some silenceing headphones as an emergancy cause otherwise I wouldnt of been able to get on the plane. we went through disability asisstance. the plane was delayed by a couple of hours and we wernt able to get on until midnight. a teenager had a go in a wheelchair and a little boy was going up and down a slope behind me which i found acted as visual stimulation and made my anxiety worse. it isnt thetre fault its just cause im autistic but thanfuly things did cam down and at 12 o'clock we lined up and got on the plane and came back to the uk by 4 or 5 oclock in the morning.
im leaving to go to a scan a less invasive one that doesnt require radiation and not noisy to check my kidneys cause of my rare condition Tuberous sclerosis cause it also afecte them not just my brain so I will be going to that soon but when im back il see the coments if there is any on my wildlife guess who game post and finish of part 3 and 4 of my wildlife holiday on here
I hope that the scan wasn't too stressful. I am looking forward to reading more of your posts.
I love the bees, and what is that longer bodied wasp/hornet looking one?
I think my favourite is the treecreeper. I'd never heard of them before.
I also want to hear more about your dogs, Wilbur and Willow! 'Romanian rescue' sounds intriguing.
there was one part that was stressful which was that I thought they were going to use the name im called now and not the one I used to be called when I was younger and it got shouted across the room which caused me dysphoria cause now a little boy and a man asumes i identify as what i was labeled based solely on the name that is usualy seen as feminine and one of the things i hate most is it shouted out for everyone in the whole room to hear both out and about too its not just limited to hospitals and I dont want to be seen as the label i was given at birth cause its not how I identify as. theres a differance between biological sex and gender identity and I didnt want how i was labeled revealed in such a public place and defantly not shouted across the room. the shouting caused me anxiety and then i did adress to the receptionist the name i prefer to be called for reasons that im transgender earlier but she obviously didnt pass it on and I also wasnt exspecting my dead name it to be used in the hospital or shouted at the very least. my dysphoria is bad enough as it is cause iv been to a gender clinic in hopes of getting hormones so that my body is congruent with my identity and so its hard to exsplain what it feells like when someone shouts your dead name across the room exspecialy in a public place. aparantly what they did is put the name i identify as right next to my dead name which is what caused the problom. the reason I thought they would call me by the correct name i identify with is cause my tuberous sclerosis exspert changed and corrected all his papaerwork to reflect my actual identity and that was at a hospital so things didnt go well in that sense it is making me contemplate getting my name changed legaly so that its on my passport and other legal papaerwork and things to avoid dysphoric situations like what happened at the hospital
and he kept calling me the wrong name and pronouns in the room and struggled to get a word in I kept opening my mouth but before i could speak he spoke so in the end Mum had to but in and tell him my prefered name and it was then I had a gap to tell him im transgender so that he knows its not just a nickname or something like that since some people call each other nicknames. I took my ear defenders but noise wasnt an issue in the end and it was very quiet it was just the complication of being transgender and not yet having my name changed legaly
thats ok.
Thank you for sharing this. What a journey!
thanks. dont worry I know you will probably slip up until you get used to it. out of all the people who have had to get used to the whole name thing my family at home have found it hardest cause they have known me longest and even to this day my Mum slips up alot she has been doing it since 2020
that was the year I found out there was a term for my exsperiance in other words such a thing as transgender and that it described my exsperiances. I tryed to keep it a secret at primary school and secondary school but it was no secret with my family who i kept correcting and them correcting me in return saying but your not and saying its not right and that they cant call me he him usualy causeing me discomfort and fustration and sometimes she would even argue. my secondary school was no different from my primary school I kept it a secret from them up until I was 16 when i trusted someone to keep a secret that I feell like a male and dont like being called she and that i didnt like being called the name of my biological sex but that person i trusted with it who was part of my class told the rest of my class in the playground and then when i told the teacher they have been good friends to me and that they arnt good friends anymore in front of them in the whole class they outed me to the teacher. I kept it a secret again then up until college when at college I corrected someone in front of a group of people and got outed again and had no education on the topic of gender identity and biological sex back then so i had no term I could use to describe myy exsperiance and i felt mis understood and people thought it was strange. it wasnt until i told someone something that i warned they might interpret as strange and said that im comfused why I see myself as male and feel like a male and why im not comfortable with being called she and it makes me feell like im in the wrong body and the person said it sounds like transgender I looked it up and did some research through a book on transgender aswell as writeing reading and other things and it was then i came out to people. I hadnt yet changed my name i changed my pronouns first and then my name after but not legaly yet It took time for people to get used to it and would need bringing up on when they slip up I hadnt come out to my family yet I was hesitant they wont be acepting cause of the amount of times they corrected me and obvious lack of understanding of what i was exsperiancing when I did risk it and tell them they said they wernt surprised. I came out to my other family like auntys and uncles aftterwards and then I went onto my doctor a few around 2022 2023 time period but it took longer for me to come out to my nurse who does my blood tests every year but did eventualy around the same time period. Iv found people who dont know me aswell as Mum and dad and my brother and sisster actualy get the hang of my name and pronouns quicker even though they have known me for a long time. I came out to my sisster and brother aswell as my Mum and Dad eventualy but not at the same time. it does take time but you will get the hang of things eventualy
It sounds tough. It sounds like you have a very strong idea about who you are. I hope that these things get easier for you. Ideas like this are 'new' to us older people. I really do try to get it right, but will slip up. It doesn't sound very nice for you when people just carry on making the mistake over and over as if they don't care, though. I think you are amazing dealing with your phobias like you do and having a strong idea about who you really are.