Old Yorkshire Lass

Blessed Imbolc to you - luckily we had reasonable weather here today so I got out in the garden for a bit. Snowdrops just starting to bloom here in Yorkshire.

Catching up with the VOD (Pix's POV) from the GIGGS first D&D session that streamed last night. Would have watched it live, but Grublin 1 wanted to go and see Iron Lung (and none of his friends were around to go with him, so I got drafted in!)

Thoroughly enjoyed the film, by the way!

How this content creator doesn't get more views, I'll never know. Loved this!

Genius! Brilliant episode and the haircut suits you!

Blu-tac is my go-to thinking stim. I have cubes of the stuff around the house and when im thinking, I roll it into a sphere, shape it into a cube, back to a sphere, back to a cube and so on. When I put it back down it has to be a cube!

Very interested to hearing yours and Joel's take on it.

Ah, I feel this post IN MY BONES.

I tend to stick to outdoors if I'm meeting up with a friend or at each other's houses. I think it's very different now than years ago. Plus the older I get, the less I can cope with noise and crowds!

Autism and ADHD diagnoses are hard enough to access anyway, often taking years, and then support after is generally non-existent for autistic folk who are considered able to function with minimal support and medication for ADHD is often the only support ADHDers are offered.

I can't have a conversation with anyone in a crowded space with music in the background. My brain can't filter out all the input. I'm sorry your friend reacted this way.

This. I'm Gen X, and yes, I had a feral childhood. As an undiagnosed AuDHD-but-very-academic child with a very complicated relationshipwith my mother, I was an outcast, so I have significant amounts of trauma. Yet I still felt like I had a future. Today's teens don't feel that.

I bloody love that man!

Last night I created a new pinned post that talks about what I do on Twitch!

I’ll be giving away a few steam keys to a few people who repost throughout the day!

By next winter.... if you're lucky!

Bloody characters, inflating their jobs.

Oh no! Hope you get it fixed soon. And that it's not too costly.

He needs a raise! What a sweetie!

Well, the cat worked. Following! 🐈

Snow! It'll be gone in an hour or two, but pretty while it lasts!

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It's one of the things you realise much later (having first watched Star Trek in the late 70s). It didn't even occur to me that it was racism.

I will do!

That's very kind of you! I do use Discord, yes! I'm very wary about gaming with other people, mostly because I've never done it! I have an abject fear of being a complete idiot in front of people! 🤣

I get what you mean though!

These are beautiful! (Totally get the hyperfocus urge. Reigning that I is bloody hard!)

I do like your commentary on films and other media - I appreciate the effort and thought that goes into it! Gives my old brain a much needed workout!

Social media has helped, in an unexpected way. I'm still very much on the periphery but the odd interactions with really interesting people make me happy.

And speaking into the void is often therapeutic too.

Normal lurking and liking will now be resumed.

Of course, my propensity to disappear when my life gets tough doesn't help. I'm aware friendships take effort and reciprocity which become impossible when I have to concentrate on supporting husband and kids through their struggles.

I am really lucky to have a husband and almost-adult kids who appear to like me quite a bit. Which is very good. But I've never made friends who hung around for long.

And this isn't a 'woe is me' post; I have spent my entire life being the outsider. I've just always wanted to know what it's like to have friends who are comfortable around my weird-ass self.