What keeps you going? Limited friends and the day to day can be tiring..,.,,
What keeps you going, what makes you smile and gives you hope?, what makes you laugh and gives you the motivation to get out of bed in the morning?
Another silly thread of mine, but I've had a tough day...looking for inspiration guys....dig deep people..
I love @Misfit61 (link didn't work again and I waited ages) 3 good things idea and it was so good to read all of this today. I think I woke up with a hurricane of internalised rage this morning and I just didn't get up until 11am, nothing good will come of that. I haven't even been able to paint lately but maybe all your positive thoughts will give me a kick up the backside to go and pick up a paintbrush and a pen. I'm so grateful that you are all here even though my capacity to join in appears to be somewhat limited. Thank you all.
Thank you so much. Just been telling myself off for rabbiting and getting too intense again. You are joining in just by reading and I like hearing what you have to say as well That's another thing we do ..beat ourselves up. So what if you stayed in bed till 11? You must have needed to. I hope you do start your creativity again soon but again it's ok if you don't. Maybe you could inspire yourself by trying something different but still uses your skills photography or printing or felting ... or something completely different that will give you a boost.. just an idea.
Thank you for your thoughts Misfit, I am making an effort not to beat myself up so much , but old habits die hard. Painting and drawing are my only real means of expressing myself, possibly writing too, and I've avoided doing it for most of twenty years, I've made reasonable progress in the last eighteen months (making not selling) so I need to fight to keep going or I'll feel like I have nothing again.
Being here definitely helps, though I feel a little like I've wasted half a day trying to get a photo off my phone and onto here))) You definitely are not rabbiting or being too intense either, please keep writing whatever you like, it's well worth reading.
Thank you for your thoughts Misfit, I am making an effort not to beat myself up so much , but old habits die hard. Painting and drawing are my only real means of expressing myself, possibly writing too, and I've avoided doing it for most of twenty years, I've made reasonable progress in the last eighteen months (making not selling) so I need to fight to keep going or I'll feel like I have nothing again.
Being here definitely helps, though I feel a little like I've wasted half a day trying to get a photo off my phone and onto here))) You definitely are not rabbiting or being too intense either, please keep writing whatever you like, it's well worth reading.
Check out the what's on your desk thread.... :)
when too squashed for too long those emotions do have a habit of exploding out...or imploding inwards...
Me too. Old beating myself up habit is hard not to do. Are your photos on the thread or another one? Ellie says you succeeded in posting them.. My first picture was today too.. I discovered I had to save it to my album and get it from there. See we're all learning this posting business. Well done for the progress sometimes when our emotions are difficult we squash them rather than express them. I liked the art therapy article in the autism magazine.
It is well said Dexter.
there are so many "sheep" out there plodding out their existence....I guess that is one of the perks or curses of being ASD is that you can see all of this and feel it so strongly ....hyper-empathic about both the finer detail and the bigger picture.....
there is so much that is happening that people ignore....consciously or otherwise....and turn their focus on things that just numb themselves from reality....like crap tv.....
what keeps me going.......
..i seem to be able to see thru things that most people don't even think about. people tend to wake up, do a job they hate to make money, the government take most of that money off people, the government raise the retirement age (up and up), then after the peoples finish work they come home and watch the crap they watch (soaps, x factor and crap). How no one ever seems to question why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and take money away from the places that need it and use it to something utterly pointless.
FACT:- you can have all the money in the world, but if you haven't any trees its all pointless.
Apologies if this makes not very much sense, but needed t attempt to try and say it.
I always start each day with a to do list.....the trick in terms of self esteem is to put things in the list that you know you'll be able to tick off at the end of the day...
you see...two out of three is not a bad success rate....just a shame that I'm still in bed! -joke-
I did learn something today after all!
I concur....
...and Spotty...you did it....not only 1 photo upload....but 2!!!!!! Yay!
