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What have you achieved recently??

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What have you achieved lately? List whatever you like, big or small…

I haven’t achieved much sadly. I was on a bit of a downer these last few months as Snowflake, my cat, died suddenly. As she was literally my only friend losing her has hit harder than I imagined it would.

Anyway, one thing I’ve achieved is that every Saturday I’ve been going in to town and having a hot chocolate in the coffee shop. This is huge for me. I always feel anxious and part of me says ‘Are you nuts!?’ but I make myself do it and generally I feel OK when in there and enjoy it.
The coffee shop has been doing an Autistic Morning every Saturday, like our local Morrisons where they dim the lights and don’t play any music so autistic customers don’t get overwhelmed. If they hadn’t done this I wouldn’t have stopped for a hot chocolate the first time.

Definitely a big achievement for me!

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  • Well done on your hot chocolate achievement :) Doing an autistic morning sounds brilliant. Aldi has been trialing autistic hours at some of their shops (unfortunately not at any of my three local shops)  I hope it's proved successful so they roll it out to all shops. 

    Just trying to think about what I've achieved recently. I went to the dentist on my own last week so I think that's pretty major. I'm 63 and have a deep seated fear of the dentist after bad experiences as a child. The sound of the drill stresses me out and I struggle with the bright light shinning in my face.  The dentist did a filling with no drilling which was a relief! 

    I hope you continue to enjoy your hot chocolate. And I'm sorry about your cat. We should never underestimate how important our pets are. 

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  • Well done on your hot chocolate achievement :) Doing an autistic morning sounds brilliant. Aldi has been trialing autistic hours at some of their shops (unfortunately not at any of my three local shops)  I hope it's proved successful so they roll it out to all shops. 

    Just trying to think about what I've achieved recently. I went to the dentist on my own last week so I think that's pretty major. I'm 63 and have a deep seated fear of the dentist after bad experiences as a child. The sound of the drill stresses me out and I struggle with the bright light shinning in my face.  The dentist did a filling with no drilling which was a relief! 

    I hope you continue to enjoy your hot chocolate. And I'm sorry about your cat. We should never underestimate how important our pets are. 

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  • in reply to Inula

    Hello. What a great achievement! Going to the dentists terrifies me and so far I haven’t found the courage to visit one since I was about 9. Well done. You should be so proud of yourself for doing that! Great achievement.

    That’s great your Aldi are giving an autistic morning a try. I hope one day every shop does that, it would mean a lot more autistic people would feel more comfortable going out I should think. For me personally I always used to do online shopping but since my Morrisons did their autistic morning I go there rather online shopping more often than not.