There's a lot of articles from young Autists and their carers struggling to find a place in the world.
And at first glance my life "status" isn't great, at all, except....
Due to my "special interests" I bought a lot of kerosine a couple of years ago and also due to my autistic insistance on finding a perfect way of getting the horrible stuff out of the big barrels, I still have the majority of it left this year... Someone gave me a battered looking Zibro heater durnig the covid time, and that sips the stuff whilst making my workshop super toasty...
This year my workshop will be leaking heat INTO the house, rather than being a source of complaint. I am hoping that by installing a chinese air blower type heater (80 quid all in) under our bay window blowing hot air into the living room I can make us use LESS gas than we ever did before. The BIG WINNER is my home made solid fuel process. I'm now trying to design and implement a boiler arrangement that will tee into our C/H system because that stuff is free (except the labour of making it)
During Covid, we had a far less scary time than most people, because I knew what to do... And in times of gross uncertainty, we 'spergs can come into our own. (Because we are used to it, I guess!) The mask I wore, (when I wore one, during the initial stages of figuring out what was actually going on) WAS bio-certified, we LIKED knowing that viruses don't tolerate UV -c light for more than a few seconds, let alone the 45 minute screening everyting that came in got from the hallway lamp I fitted...
But most of all, I feel my Autism helps me connect in quite a meaningful way to this big, beautiful and very orange furry creature that has parked himself on my lap...
I'm hoping some other members have examples of where their Autism works FOR them, and can "brag" a bit...
