What have you achieved recently??

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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  • I accepted a Gas service engineer visit on the same day that they called me (because they had a cancellation)

    I actually thought, I'll endure an hour of total panic and get it out of the way for Winter, rather than try and predict a day I'd be ok some random time in the future.

    He's here now, and seems alright. But, I can't wait for him to go.

    Masking is draining, but my most draining mask is the blokey bloke one reserved for builders a men like this.

  • I hope you're feeling ok after all that masking. Well done you were amazing to go through it! I need to get a man in for so many things at my house but my anxiety is never good enough these days. Can I borrow your mask? Laughing

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