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JessaBee

Hii I'm JessaBee. I have autism and I'm also ADHD and suffering from quite debilitating anxiety. I've been practicing mindfulness to try and help with the anxiety.

I love bees! They are my special interest and I also like being creative, drawing and painting; and I like listening to music, reading and writing, and watching stuff. 

I'm currently learning to drive. Wish I could fly like a bee though lol Joy it would be a lot less stress for me!

I do a lot of reading. I love books, they are a great escape for me. My latest read is Neuro Tribes by Steve Silberman... it's a book about autism, highly recommend if anyone here hasn't read it. I'm loving it so far! Really good book.

Nice to meet you. See you about.

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  • Welcome aboard, JessaBee. You’ve just reminded me that I must finish Neurotribes one of these days. I have the audiobook paused about two thirds in. Bought it during those heady early days just post-diagnosis and went full tilt into that and other ways to know ‘everything’ all at once and then maybe over-saturated myself with all that stuff. Now that I have a bit more balance of inputs going on, not a bad time to delve back in. 

    Bees are cool, though I’m not going to pretend they don’t scare me. Insects in general are a big phobia for me, but when I see. Picture of a bee (pictures are safe!) they are rather beautiful. And we all know that if the bees ever all vanish overnight, we need to start worrying! 

    Or do I mean dolphins…? I’m sure Russell T Davies or Douglas Adams could help me out thereSlight smile

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    After I was diagnosed I got so many books because I wanted to know everything about autism and try to absorb as much as I could do I could better manage it and help myself but like you found it's a really stressful and overwhelming approach, and too much to take in. 

    I think already our brains have so much to process and it's like overloading it trying to take in so much. A lot of books I stopped and decided I would return to them when the time is right, like you are now, and I think that's the best approach.

    Really cool you can get it on audiobook as well. I didn't know that! I own a lot of books but have slowly been trying to replace a lot with audiobooks, I find them easier than reading and they save a lot of space. 

    The bees are disappearing... Going back home to Planet Melissa Majoria... Laughing I loved David Tennant with Catherine Tate, the Doctor Donna. Great duo in my opinion...

    This might be what first started my love of bees lol. It's the first episode I ever saw. 

    Don't worry bees are lovely really, they get anxious and that's what makes them sting, like a last resort thing. If you remain calm around them they just buzz off, no pun intended. 

    My mum is scared of bees too. Funny though because I'm scared of wasps lol.

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  • in reply to Shardovan

    After I was diagnosed I got so many books because I wanted to know everything about autism and try to absorb as much as I could do I could better manage it and help myself but like you found it's a really stressful and overwhelming approach, and too much to take in. 

    I think already our brains have so much to process and it's like overloading it trying to take in so much. A lot of books I stopped and decided I would return to them when the time is right, like you are now, and I think that's the best approach.

    Really cool you can get it on audiobook as well. I didn't know that! I own a lot of books but have slowly been trying to replace a lot with audiobooks, I find them easier than reading and they save a lot of space. 

    The bees are disappearing... Going back home to Planet Melissa Majoria... Laughing I loved David Tennant with Catherine Tate, the Doctor Donna. Great duo in my opinion...

    This might be what first started my love of bees lol. It's the first episode I ever saw. 

    Don't worry bees are lovely really, they get anxious and that's what makes them sting, like a last resort thing. If you remain calm around them they just buzz off, no pun intended. 

    My mum is scared of bees too. Funny though because I'm scared of wasps lol.

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