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What have you achieved recently??

A=BCD

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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  • in reply to GEEnie

    There is an OU open learn 8 hour course called "introducing philosophy" which is also on my list of courses I'm thinking of doing.

     There are just so many that sound interesting, as I have interests in lots of different fields. Here is a list of some of the other courses I may do in the future:

    Art & life in Ancient Egypt            30 hrs

    Forensic science & fingerprints. 10 hrs. 

    Galaxies, stars and planets.          8 hrs

    The science of nuclear energy.    12 hrs

    Exploring the English language.    9 hrs

    Living psychology: animal minds. 12 hrs

    Egyptian mathematics.                     9 hrs

  • in reply to Lotus

    Speaking of University, I've developed a keen interest in Philosophy over the past few weeks and am willing to try pursuing it further.

    You seem like a rich wealth of knowledge and experience Pixiefox :) 

  • in reply to A=BCD

    I am doing the free short online courses that the Open university offer, now I'm retired.

    I have completed these:

    Herodotus & the invention of history
    Watching the weather.
    Exploring ancient Greek religion.
    An introduction to Artificial intelligence.
    An introduction to criminology.

    I just have 3 more hours of study to do for the understanding autism course and then I'll have finished that and will choose my next course.

    I might do understanding ADHD next.