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!

Parents
  • Might be a bit oversharing, but I had a meltdown in public yesterday and managed nothing more than to get home (still crying), then lay in bed, being a bit on this forum and watching comfort shows even though I had to study and go to my gym class (didn’t manage to do that). The more proud I am of being able to get up this morning, go to school (even though my lessons started later today), write a math exam (which went quite good) and stick around for P.E. even though it’s not important for my final mark and I knew I forgot my earplugs.

    Seems silly, but I didn’t think I’d be able to do that after yesterday, especially after not really managing to study at all.

  • Well done with getting straight "back on the bike", as we say in the UK (trying again)

  • Funny, we say “to get back in the saddle/on the horse” in Germany. 
    And thanks! I’ve not always been able to do that and I don’t know yet if the missing cool-down-phase might trigger a meltdown later on. But for now, I’m happy to be able to do stuff.

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  • Funny, we say “to get back in the saddle/on the horse” in Germany. 
    And thanks! I’ve not always been able to do that and I don’t know yet if the missing cool-down-phase might trigger a meltdown later on. But for now, I’m happy to be able to do stuff.

Children
  • I’m in N. Ireland and we say “back in the saddle/on the horse” too. Aren’t expressions and idioms sometimes strange things. in the English language some make literal sense, others such as “we caught the bus by the skin of our teeth” (we narrowly made it to the bus) are nonsensical.