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Tell us about your self projects

RachelO

Hi everyone, in my life for whatever reasons I haven’t been able to work full time. In my 20s and 40s I spent substantial amounts of time in inpatient for an eating disorder and didn’t have a normal youth. I was also diagnosed late with autism and several needs are moderate and I have marked sensory needs. I also live alone and do not have children.

Anyway, what has given me joy is the self projects in my life and the voluntary work I can do. I thought by discussing these it could give some one the idea to do their own self project and also to inspire others to pick up something new. Self projects I think can help people to keep going. I am training to do a voluntary job right now and that will give me joy to, but am here to discuss that in this thread.

Me-

The first project I did was for eating disorders awareness week in 2021. I lost a dear friend and was motivated to release an article to coincide with eating disorders awareness week in the UK. I also took the time to tell my own story and discuss some key things I felt were of concern. This got good feedback and led to me working with the NHS voluntary on a project and I ended as a co author in the Lancet which was great. They also did a filming of an event and that was good as well.

I also had a waterfall project to film and visit all the artificial waterfalls in London parks and Gardens and upload them to Youtube and have a separate channel for that. To finish that of I treated myself to a day trip to Zurich to see the largest waterfall the Rhinefalls. It was a blast.

I also did one for my faith. This was great for my spirit and soul and for me the best thing I have done. I created a blog and shared my story and was trying to reach people in a similar situation to me. I shared the link on Facebook and friends and family.  I got some cards printed and gave the link out to the blog in church and in left them in a neighbouring church to be read. I liked to put the cards to in our local supermarket which has their own noticeboard for people to take if they wanted. I gave a few cards to people in the street who I felt may relate very rarely or who I knew. I posted the cards in blocks in lower deprived areas and returned to where I used to live which was great to do so. I also made some made some covering videos. I have extended this now the posts on my blog and even used some from my studies days to blog about so it is not in waste. I enjoy making small videos for my faith. I also created a forum to archive my posts on my faith in the last year that I made online. It was such a good thing for me.  I have posted the link to my story of my faith here which you can find by searching my past posts so there is no need to do so here again.

I have done other things in my life earlier like a like mental health support forum for eating disorders, but will just discuss this three here and look forward to learning about your self projects. I think they are more than just being interests.

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  • I am not a 'joiner', and find social interactions draining. Volunteering is not something I would consider. When I worked full time, my 'social batteries' were fully drained by being sociable at work. My projects are, therefore, solitary. In the mid 2000s I had a spate of writing historical articles online and for print journals, one of which won an international prize (including $450.00s worth of books on my subject). I have written 39 new articles on Wikipedia and rewritten and expanded very many more. 

    At work I had many research projects over the years, most of which resulted in publications.

  • in reply to Martin

    Same here. I’m far not enough social to do any volunteering. I write sci fi stories and also draw pictures for them. There was about time travel 500 years to the future and then back. There was cataclysm and aliens actively helping save humanity. Now it’s a girl with vast inner world but suffering in the outside world (like me) and she has encounters with ETs in her dreams, in other realms. She sees much more than in our realm. They tell her, that humans are the last currently existing civilisation in the Milky Way. Previous ones extincted themselves with their ego and greed. The aliens ask her to not engage with anyone, who hates and they inform her that it’s the last hope in our species to survive and become interplanetary. To survive and populate the galaxy again. She would see wonderful planets and discuss with them a possibility of living there. Then she will ask aliens to let her stay with them, because she is tired of this world. They inform her, she can’t stay right now, they  promise her they are always with her, but not always visible, taking care of her and supporting her mission. They also let her know, that she will finally have a good relationship with a human being. She will meet a man, who writes with fork in the air while eating. Exactly like her. (Like me).

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    Your book sounds interesting. Will you be publishing it do you think? I like writing, also about sci-fi and try to portray my differences and Autism in some of my writing, though don't really know if I write it out clearly. I struggle so badly with finishing my writing. I have an folder full of unfinished projects.

  • in reply to Pols

    They give me a lot of joy and unique taste. 

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