Hello

Hi

I'm Tigermoo, and I absolutely hate introductions!  Well I hate writing them, everyone else always seem to have something a lot more intelligent to say.  I was diagnosed autistic on the 3rd February this year, right before my 39th birthday.  Lockdown helped me realise I was autistic, which was kickstarted by my husband googling why I walk on my toes around the house.

So stealing some ideas from others, I'm married with 2 cats.  I'm sure I read somewhere that women on the spectrum always have 2 cats - well I ticked that stereotype   My boys are called Riley and Ash.  Riley is a blue point tabby Birman, 10 years old, and came with us from New Zealand when we decided to move back to the UK.  Ash is a Russian Blue, turns 4 next month and is Welsh.  We live in the middle of England, not too far from where I grew up in Warwickshire, hoping to make a return one day.

Interests wise, I'm a big gamer, I was very lucky and managed to grab a PS5 in December 2020 and I enjoy playing on that, but we also have a Switch out of the current gen consoles.  We're currently playing Elden Ring which we're both really enjoying and I was playing Pokemon Legends Arceus before that.  My favourite game of all time is an impossible question to answer but today I would pick The Witcher 3 which I'm eagerly anticipating the PS5 patch for so I can replay it again.

I'm also studying tarot and have found it an amazing tool to learn from.  I don't necessarily see it as a fortune telling predictive tool for myself, but I like to see what the cards have to say about my week ahead which I do on a Sunday night.  It can offer a fresh perspective and can help calm me I've noticed.  Any tarot enthusiasts who want to chat please say hi!  I would love a study buddy/someone to learn from.  I wouldn't say I have psychic powers or anything but I can tell if something bad is going to happen, when I feel it in my gut its never been wrong, and I've certainly had experiences that I can't explain.

I absolutely love animals, they are so much easier to connect with than people.  Researching autism has made me see things in my boys, I reckon Riley is autistic and Ash has ADHD.  I can instantly connect and bond with any animal, can't say the same about people.  I would say outside of my husband I have 3 people I semi regularly talk to, and the one I talk to the most I've never met in person, not sure what that says about me!  I cannot stand any kind of animal abuse, I can watch films/TV shows of people dying all day without batting an eyelid but the second its an animal I'm switching everything off and crying my eyes out.

I do enjoy crafts but I feel I'm bad at them.  There seems to be a disconnect between how I imagine something will look in my head and how it turns out, which does affect my confidence.  Music wise I would say I have quite a varied musical taste but a couple of my favourites would be Aviators and Miracle of Sound (don't worry, I don't expect anyone else to have heard of either of them!).  I use music as a kind of therapy and that's been useful.  TV - last thing I really loved was Game of Thrones (animal violence aside and I very nearly didn't watch it as a result), favourite movies range from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy to Se7en.  I'm not a big TV/movie watcher, we don't have a TV licence as we default to games more often than not.

I really enjoy using Excel at work.  I'm an accounts clerk and I recently turned a job that was taking me 7.5 hours to do into a 2.5 -3 hour job.  Quite proud of that, as its not only saving time, but also my sanity!   Love finding new things in Excel especially formulas.  I'm lucky in that the job I do now, after proving myself to my manager, I'm given free reign to explore and give myself projects to find more efficient ways of doing things.

Another thing about me is I clearly don't know when to shut up!  So if you can handle a long response, feel free to say hi