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Some help would be nice (Venting)

Sporadic Sparkly

Before I continue, this is not a plea for help from fellow members, but a need to vent.

I am Autistic and my son (an adult) is NT. In addition to my Autism, I have a physical condition (hypothyroidism) that can often cause me to feel physically drained and lacking in energy. My son is aware of this and there are some chores he does for me without needing to be asked. For example, my washing machine is in my kitchen, but my tumble dryer is in a different part of the house that involves walking down a set of stairs. If laundry needs transferring from the washing machine to the tumble dryer, this is something my son will do because I struggle with the weight. He will also pop to the supermarket or our local shop for me.

Sometimes, when there is a pile of washing-up building up, to the extent of there being no clean cutlery and crockery, my son will fill the sink and leave washing-up to soak, but then not get around to actually doing any washing-up. Agh! Whilst the smell of stagnant water in the washing-up bowl doesn't seem to bother my son, it certainly bothers me when I then have to tip it down the sink. The smell causes me to feel incredibly queasy, and my son knows this.

Today, I am sitting in my kitchen looking at a pile of washing-up, and a pile of stuff that needs to be put in the recycling bags I have. I am not houseproud, but the sight of it is bothering me. Whilst I know there are things my son does to assist me, I just wish he would take the initiative sometimes and help with more of the housework without needing to be asked.

Sorry, I just had to get all that off my chest.

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  • Yesterday was a good day. Grin

    In addition to feeling in a thoroughly happy mood, I had succeeded in sufficiently psyching myself up to tackle some housework that I had been putting off. This included putting on a load of washing, putting a major dent in a mountain of washing-up, and clearing my kitchen of items that needed to be put outside for kerbside recycling collection this morning.

    My reward? A lovely, peaceful, relaxing soak in the bath.

  • in reply to Sporadic Sparkly

    I can't remember the last time i had a bath, only ever use the shower now.  The water to the bath use to flow very slowly and was only ever lukewarm. We had the central heating people back a couple of times and all they said was, they thought perhaps the house was to big for the boiler, so wouldn't heat that much fast enough. So all the bath was used for, there's a rack in it to dry washing, save going out to the garden Just had a new central heating boiler fitted, which seems much better than the old one. So i may try a bath one day and see if it woeks.

  • in reply to Cullpepper

    I absolutely love having baths, which is handy because there's no shower in my house. I guess I'm lucky because the water heats up almost instantly when I turn the hot tap on, and the water flow is pretty good too. Cullpepper, perhaps you should put your new boiler to the test and try running a bath. 

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