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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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  • Hi Paradox, I am currently off work...not sure if I will be going back. I spend a chunk of time looking after the house, doing various household chores. Always try and get outside, usually for a walk and sometimes a run. I love my PC games, so try and squeeze that in somewhere in the day. Preparing meals, I don't mind a bit of cooking although tend to make the same things :) Watch some TV mostly in the evenings, maybe listen to some books on audible. I don't tend to leave the homestead much especially at the moment, hopefully when Im feeling a bit braver I can get back to visiting castles, other historic places etc. 

    My big passion is writing which sounds like yourself, I am going through a similar spell but would hope I can pick it back up again, although it does become all consuming which scares me a little...one day I will finish that fantasy epic!

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  • Hi Paradox, I am currently off work...not sure if I will be going back. I spend a chunk of time looking after the house, doing various household chores. Always try and get outside, usually for a walk and sometimes a run. I love my PC games, so try and squeeze that in somewhere in the day. Preparing meals, I don't mind a bit of cooking although tend to make the same things :) Watch some TV mostly in the evenings, maybe listen to some books on audible. I don't tend to leave the homestead much especially at the moment, hopefully when Im feeling a bit braver I can get back to visiting castles, other historic places etc. 

    My big passion is writing which sounds like yourself, I am going through a similar spell but would hope I can pick it back up again, although it does become all consuming which scares me a little...one day I will finish that fantasy epic!

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