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What do you do every day if you don't work?

Paradox

I spend every day at home, doing the same stuff, over and over. I like it from the routine point of view as any break to my routine causes me shut/meltdown but it's samey and I've watched all my movies, read all my books and played all my video games, though games I enjoy doing over and over. I used to spend a lot of time writing but had a mental health breakdown in 2020 and I lost my creative thinking during that period, and it hasn't come back yet.

I feel I'm in a rut and I don't know what to do about it. I was going out to the library every Friday but the library is now closed permanently, I live in a small rural village, what my mum calls an old fashioned English village and the library was only small and too "expensive" to keep, sadly for me. I struggle with mobility but now the weather is picking up I've been making an effort to go in the garden, at least then I'm out and enjoying the fresh air and any wildlife that exists in the garden.

My family are supportive but they don't understand autism and I'm under a lot of pressure to get a job. My dad thinks it will cure me.

What do you do each day? Sorry rant over.

Looking for things to fill my time.

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  • I have to look for work everyday because my universal credit claimant commitment insists I do and I have update my universal credit journal every day, if I didn't I wouldn't get paid.

    On Mondays I go to the specialist autism services centre to learn social skills.

    I go for walks.

    I go on day trips by coach or train. These include organised ones and on my own.

    I read, I have a small library of academic books so I keep my skills fresh and learn more every day.

    I clean and cook and eat and shop.

    I go out to do landscape photography. 

    I watch tv and my massive dvd library.

    I worry about my future,   I'm terified that when I die nobody will notice that I'm gone and my body will be found months or years later mummified, when debt collectors or bailiffs break down my door to evict me.

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  • I have to look for work everyday because my universal credit claimant commitment insists I do and I have update my universal credit journal every day, if I didn't I wouldn't get paid.

    On Mondays I go to the specialist autism services centre to learn social skills.

    I go for walks.

    I go on day trips by coach or train. These include organised ones and on my own.

    I read, I have a small library of academic books so I keep my skills fresh and learn more every day.

    I clean and cook and eat and shop.

    I go out to do landscape photography. 

    I watch tv and my massive dvd library.

    I worry about my future,   I'm terified that when I die nobody will notice that I'm gone and my body will be found months or years later mummified, when debt collectors or bailiffs break down my door to evict me.

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