Hi Pass, that is amazing - I have always wanted to sew a corset. when i was in 7th grade i was obsessed with the society for creative anachronism - which is group that dresses up like the renaissance - but really only cause i loved the costumes.
Thank you so much for saying that about your laundry. My laundry always piles up and it's hard to deal with it. Sometimes, I spend all my "spoons" on making sure my kids' clothes are folded and put away, and then I have none left for my own.
I think some phones have the option of using a song instead of something that is so jarring Hi, crow family!…I love crows,we have a few that visit our birdbath.
Could you set a song to play instead of an alarm sound? Less jarring and could still work as a reminder? If the notification thing doesn't work of course or in the mean time. I'm glad you've had a good week even if it's been busy 😊 . The baby kitties are getting so big! They're still so adorable though. So exciting about the zucchini and pumpkins!!! 🎃 Gardening is so rewarding, sometimes sad but just makes the next year more exciting. 😊 I've been busy as well, had the first night in the new house. Lol cats didn't really let me sleep but that's ok. I still have half a U-Haul to unload wooo haha. Have an amazing day Claire and everyone 💜
@@WoodshedTheory it's ok so far, the chaos is not fun but I'm making it through 😊. Getting new rugs tomorrow so something to look forward to ,and I get to unpack my yarn and sewing machine! 🎉
+WoodshedTheory *Schedule notes are a good thing.* I've developed a habit for writing on a physical calendar as a way of synchronization to the virtual schedule in Google. BtW, _love_ how the PORCH COFFEE mug turned out iRT for taping.
Eugh, the clean laundry pile/piles! Totally relate to that! We have one of stuff just in from the line and then another on a chair in the bedroom. I have been dressing out of both for weeks. And where *are* all my clothes in general? (I've been eeking out just a few in circulation.) Not in those piles, not in the drawers or hanging up, not in the laundry bins. It's a mystery where certain clothes go, sometimes for months, then just re-appear. I swear they go on holidays too! :D Yay Pumpkins!!
My son's pediatrician said I wasn't autistic last week during the appointment. He said I have autistic traits, but I'm not autistic. I definitely started feeling like an imposter after that. He's real old school though and deals with level 3 kids and mostly boys so I've tried to shake off that comment. Have a good week Claire and friends! 💞
What an ignorant little man! This is why we fall through the net! We mask so we fit in, that doesn’t mean we are not authentic it means we have learnt to cope in their world! X
Personally I think the general idea of taking meds needs to be talked about more to get rid of the stigma around taking it… I don’t think it’s necessarily helpful for that to say specific med names but what it’s for or the type of medication I think harms none being talked about whilst helping to normalize it…. I had alarms for meds and a program to remind me but part of the problem is I turn off alarms before moving to take the meds then I forget…. Imposter syndrome is partly why I needed to pay out for an official diagnosis… id a rather elaborate over 100 page report on all the reasons I am autistic and still even with it in front of me looking at it…. Imposter syndrome would roar at me.
I'm adverse to alarms, too. They cause me anxiety just knowing they're going to go off. I try to use activity chains, like I remember to do something because I always do it after the same activity, like brushing teeth after I do the dishes. Schedules are my life savers.
I have a aversion to alarms too. Can't stand them. I get upset by others alarms too, especially if they wake me up. I never used an alarm to wake up. My brain always woke me up when I needed to wake up. Except when I worked a graveyard shift for two years. It was the first time I had to use an alarm. I cringed each time I heard that ring tone, even after I stopped working the graveyard shift. As far as reminders. I've been settling a lot lately but my phone is on silent most the time. But you can always pick a fun ring tone on your phone to use for your alarm. I'm sure there is a way to download a favorite song to use as your alarm.
'What did I do this week ?' - I know the feeling. Whatever it was it was tiring so I must have done a lot of something. Sorry I missed watching your sewing video - clearly I was too busy... Being company is very important, esp for us NDs. Your company is appreciated on a Monday morning (I know I'm watching this at 1pm - my mornings drag on). Fun is also important - I think. (it's one of those words I don't understand the meaning of. I'm sure I've had fun but I just didn't know that's what it's called.) I hate alarm clocks - they're too alarming. This is why, when I need to use one, I have a radio alarm clock. Using the radio, set on low volume, is a much gentler way to be woken up (for me). Any way to do that or similar on your phone ? You're Austic AF, Claire - which makes you a much more interesting person for it. Don't believe me? (spontaneous pumpkin song...) Cats - I was woken up at 5.20 yesterday morning by a cat kicking the sh!t out of the cat flap in the kitchen door (not had a cat in 20ys hence it was shut). I thought it was trying to get in (seemed very odd). Had to get up to shoo it away (as it was ongoing) only to find it was IN the kitchen trying to get out! All the doors & windows had been shut since app. 9pm the previous evening so it must have snuck in the patio door before then & been holed up somewhere in the house for at least 8hrs. Shot out the door like a... well... scolded cat when I opened it. Hope you have a good week. I'm off to do yet more work on the trike. This is turning into a full time job only the money is flowing in the wrong direction.
I've had a pretty decent week. Eric saties gymnopedie is my wake up alarm and would work as a medicine reminder. Oddly, being self diagnosed, I'd expect myself to have more issues with imposter syndrome but I for some reason never doubt it for more than a moment. It may help that two people have told me they suspected it of me when we met, one before even i suspected, the other is diagnosed, and a few have said it 'made sense'. More though, I don't feel it really matters. I think it is a description at best officially diagnosed or not. The description fits us both pretty well and we benefit from us and people knowing what that might mean. I wonder too if to some degree anxiety is latching onto this as something to scream about. I only really doubt myself in any way when anxious.
Alarms are annoying, but they help me so much. You may be able to pick a song to play instead of a traditional alarm noise. Sounds like you had a productive week! Laundry for the win 🏆.
I had butternut squash this year did not feel like doing anything with them myself so I gave them away and told them bring me back some butternut squash soup. They did it tasted great and I didn’t have to do anything but grow them. Lol
In regards to the alarm/notification situation for meds, I think you can set a notification through your phone's calendar. When I've taken meds, I typically work it into my morning routine. Like, I always make a smoothie on week days so if they're near there I'll see the container and probably do it. Or maybe keep it by your bedside so you have to see it first thing in the morning or before bed, depending on when you need to take them.
I remember my dad telling me that we had fish when I was younger, but I over fed them and my dad said it was like they were swimming in porridge. 😂 I don’t mind folding laundry because I have a special way of folding my girls clothes and I can watch something at the same time (well something that isn’t educational so I’m not rewinding and making notes all the time). I don’t like putting it away or hanging it up. I feel calm when my house is tidy but tidying feels so mundane and boring because I’m not learning anything. I was probably quite OCD about cleaning before I was on my tablets though. I don’t know if I had it as such though because I didn’t repeat things I had already done. I was just particular and perfectionistic and anxious about things. Idk like worries that the gas cooker was on or something. I did check on the girls too much when they were sleeping as babies though which affected my own sleep so possibly then, but that’s probably a normal thing.
I had a fish in college and i asked a girl to feed it over winter break - when i came back she had poured a huge amount into the bowl over and over and over until there was an inch of swamp on the top of the cage - i still have no idea what she was thinking
My alarm / ringtone is really annoying, but it also has a purpose. I’m pleased that I made it myself. It’s embarrassing when it goes off in public though. It is minor chord arpeggios in a highish octave and with an annoying timbre/tone so that I have to take action to turn it off. It probably does leave me a bit stressed after it goes off though. There was a neurologist who gave a talk at our uni before I started but it was filmed and he said that practicing anxiety helps you to over come anxiety/stress even better than breathing techniques because they are just bringing your heart rate down, but your brain never practices the stress with that so you still feel anxious the next time you do the thing that makes you feel anxious. I don’t think the practicing of stress works for my ringtone! It gets me every time. It would probably be better if I made a song I like into a ringtone, but hopefully I will learn these minor arpeggios for uni. I swapped medication yesterday. I have put on a lot of weight with Sertraline. I fear I made the wrong choice with the new SSRI I asked to be put on. My friend has a best friend with diagnosed autism and she is on Fluxotine. I think I saw online that it might lead to less weight gain. But now I have swapped I saw it was in the same category for weight gain as Sertraline. I didn’t realise Fluxotine is another name for Prozac. Prozac is negatively portrayed in the media. My friend said it is addictive so I’m worried now. I wonder if my psychiatrist will let me try an A-typical SSRI instead. They have the lowest risk of weight gain apparently. I think I chose Fluxotine for the wrong reasons just because my friend’s friend takes it. I’m also thinking that my psychiatrist should have corrected me and told me about other medications and warned me that Fluxotine is addictive. I have made choices for medication based on what isn’t addictive and gradually stopped certain sleeping tablets because they were addictive. Surely they should make a list of the types of choices patients make and if they have an aversion to addictive ones then point that out and ask the patient if they are sure.
Hi I was on a high amount of sertaline when I first started - I switched but only cause they couldnt give me a higher dose. I would say it worked for me though. Meds are hard because it's really a case by case basis. - Oh wait now I am seeing you switched to prozac - that is what I switched to and it's been alright. I haven't found it addictive at all.
I was asked to do a photobooth photoshoot Saturday. I stopped working because I just can’t deal with the anxiety of dealing with people. I got there and they didn’t have the props promised so I was so thrown! It went okish I got really overwhelmed after two hours. I’ve edited them and uploaded but have been suffering serious anxiety about it ever since. Talk about imposter syndrome…. I hate something I used to love doing so much causes me to crash so badly…. 😢 it’s my special interest, but now I can’t do anything without it causing me serious mental health issues 😢😢😢
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My sewing group is only for 2 hours and a half a week, but my cosplay is a work in progress. This week the corset will be begun.
Hi Pass, that is amazing - I have always wanted to sew a corset. when i was in 7th grade i was obsessed with the society for creative anachronism - which is group that dresses up like the renaissance - but really only cause i loved the costumes.
Congratulations on your pumpkin pollination!
Yes my friend, I am so pleased!
Thank you so much for saying that about your laundry. My laundry always piles up and it's hard to deal with it. Sometimes, I spend all my "spoons" on making sure my kids' clothes are folded and put away, and then I have none left for my own.
I'm glad that you got something from it, cause it is embarrasing for me that i can't handle it, i know i'm not alone but still.
As an alarm I’ve set “Secunda” from Skyrim OST. It’s so calm and nature inspired... No more raised heartbeat in the morning! 😅
Oh i will look into that
pumped on pumpkins!!!🎃🧡🖤
pump pump pumpkin it up
@@WoodshedTheory 😂👏
I think some phones have the option of using a song instead of something that is so jarring
Hi, crow family!…I love crows,we have a few that visit our birdbath.
I love the crows so much - we are always trying to interact with them
@@WoodshedTheory I do too!
Don't feel too bad about not feeding the fish once Claire, actually for most fish a temporary fast can be good for them so no harm done
that's good!
They have forgotten by now 🤣
Could you set a song to play instead of an alarm sound? Less jarring and could still work as a reminder? If the notification thing doesn't work of course or in the mean time.
I'm glad you've had a good week even if it's been busy 😊 . The baby kitties are getting so big! They're still so adorable though. So exciting about the zucchini and pumpkins!!! 🎃 Gardening is so rewarding, sometimes sad but just makes the next year more exciting. 😊
I've been busy as well, had the first night in the new house. Lol cats didn't really let me sleep but that's ok. I still have half a U-Haul to unload wooo haha.
Have an amazing day Claire and everyone 💜
thanks a great idea! How is the new house? I find that my OCD symptoms are amplified in a new place like x100.
@@WoodshedTheory it's ok so far, the chaos is not fun but I'm making it through 😊. Getting new rugs tomorrow so something to look forward to ,and I get to unpack my yarn and sewing machine! 🎉
@@samanthaburger4872 that is so exciting
+WoodshedTheory *Schedule notes are a good thing.* I've developed a habit for writing on a physical calendar as a way of synchronization to the virtual schedule in Google.
BtW, _love_ how the PORCH COFFEE mug turned out iRT for taping.
Thanks I am still trying to figure out how to make them for sale to everyone and still be following state law - so confusing!
Eugh, the clean laundry pile/piles! Totally relate to that! We have one of stuff just in from the line and then another on a chair in the bedroom. I have been dressing out of both for weeks. And where *are* all my clothes in general? (I've been eeking out just a few in circulation.) Not in those piles, not in the drawers or hanging up, not in the laundry bins. It's a mystery where certain clothes go, sometimes for months, then just re-appear. I swear they go on holidays too! :D
Yay Pumpkins!!
I totally get the laundry thing. I just can't keep up with it, too much energy
Gotta show us your pumpkin at Halloween, please!!!!
well right now it is the size of a ping pong ball - i need to learn how much it should be growing per day
My son's pediatrician said I wasn't autistic last week during the appointment. He said I have autistic traits, but I'm not autistic. I definitely started feeling like an imposter after that. He's real old school though and deals with level 3 kids and mostly boys so I've tried to shake off that comment. Have a good week Claire and friends! 💞
Shake it off! Have a great week 😎
I am trying not to type curse words right now, i am so sorry this happened to you
What an ignorant little man! This is why we fall through the net! We mask so we fit in, that doesn’t mean we are not authentic it means we have learnt to cope in their world! X
Personally I think the general idea of taking meds needs to be talked about more to get rid of the stigma around taking it… I don’t think it’s necessarily helpful for that to say specific med names but what it’s for or the type of medication I think harms none being talked about whilst helping to normalize it….
I had alarms for meds and a program to remind me but part of the problem is I turn off alarms before moving to take the meds then I forget….
Imposter syndrome is partly why I needed to pay out for an official diagnosis… id a rather elaborate over 100 page report on all the reasons I am autistic and still even with it in front of me looking at it…. Imposter syndrome would roar at me.
@@ghill8587 thanks you too!
I'm adverse to alarms, too. They cause me anxiety just knowing they're going to go off. I try to use activity chains, like I remember to do something because I always do it after the same activity, like brushing teeth after I do the dishes. Schedules are my life savers.
I need someone to make my schedule and then make sure i keep it lol
I have several alarms,I hate them
I've just switched them off. Setting a notification sounds good
glad we are all finding a solution together
I have a aversion to alarms too. Can't stand them. I get upset by others alarms too, especially if they wake me up. I never used an alarm to wake up. My brain always woke me up when I needed to wake up. Except when I worked a graveyard shift for two years. It was the first time I had to use an alarm. I cringed each time I heard that ring tone, even after I stopped working the graveyard shift.
As far as reminders. I've been settling a lot lately but my phone is on silent most the time. But you can always pick a fun ring tone on your phone to use for your alarm. I'm sure there is a way to download a favorite song to use as your alarm.
Yeah - coming up with a solution is hard.
'What did I do this week ?' - I know the feeling. Whatever it was it was tiring so I must have done a lot of something. Sorry I missed watching your sewing video - clearly I was too busy...
Being company is very important, esp for us NDs. Your company is appreciated on a Monday morning (I know I'm watching this at 1pm - my mornings drag on). Fun is also important - I think. (it's one of those words I don't understand the meaning of. I'm sure I've had fun but I just didn't know that's what it's called.)
I hate alarm clocks - they're too alarming. This is why, when I need to use one, I have a radio alarm clock. Using the radio, set on low volume, is a much gentler way to be woken up (for me). Any way to do that or similar on your phone ?
You're Austic AF, Claire - which makes you a much more interesting person for it. Don't believe me? (spontaneous pumpkin song...)
Cats - I was woken up at 5.20 yesterday morning by a cat kicking the sh!t out of the cat flap in the kitchen door (not had a cat in 20ys hence it was shut). I thought it was trying to get in (seemed very odd). Had to get up to shoo it away (as it was ongoing) only to find it was IN the kitchen trying to get out! All the doors & windows had been shut since app. 9pm the previous evening so it must have snuck in the patio door before then & been holed up somewhere in the house for at least 8hrs. Shot out the door like a... well... scolded cat when I opened it.
Hope you have a good week. I'm off to do yet more work on the trike. This is turning into a full time job only the money is flowing in the wrong direction.
wow sounds like the great cat escape lol
And the greenthumb award goes to ....
not me lol
I've had a pretty decent week. Eric saties gymnopedie is my wake up alarm and would work as a medicine reminder.
Oddly, being self diagnosed, I'd expect myself to have more issues with imposter syndrome but I for some reason never doubt it for more than a moment. It may help that two people have told me they suspected it of me when we met, one before even i suspected, the other is diagnosed, and a few have said it 'made sense'.
More though, I don't feel it really matters. I think it is a description at best officially diagnosed or not. The description fits us both pretty well and we benefit from us and people knowing what that might mean. I wonder too if to some degree anxiety is latching onto this as something to scream about. I only really doubt myself in any way when anxious.
Hi Friend, thanks for sharing with me, it really helps.
Now you have fish, we have the same lot of pets! Isn't it like having toddlers?
I don't have toddlers so i'm not sure lol
@@WoodshedTheory mine are adults now, but lots of pets is like having small children 😊🌿
@@julie_uk_ ahhh good to know
Alarms are annoying, but they help me so much. You may be able to pick a song to play instead of a traditional alarm noise. Sounds like you had a productive week! Laundry for the win 🏆.
That's a great idea!
I had butternut squash this year did not feel like doing anything with them myself so I gave them away and told them bring me back some butternut squash soup. They did it tasted great and I didn’t have to do anything but grow them. Lol
That’s a good idea
In regards to the alarm/notification situation for meds, I think you can set a notification through your phone's calendar. When I've taken meds, I typically work it into my morning routine. Like, I always make a smoothie on week days so if they're near there I'll see the container and probably do it. Or maybe keep it by your bedside so you have to see it first thing in the morning or before bed, depending on when you need to take them.
that is a good idea, i will look into the calendar thing
I remember my dad telling me that we had fish when I was younger, but I over fed them and my dad said it was like they were swimming in porridge. 😂
I don’t mind folding laundry because I have a special way of folding my girls clothes and I can watch something at the same time (well something that isn’t educational so I’m not rewinding and making notes all the time). I don’t like putting it away or hanging it up. I feel calm when my house is tidy but tidying feels so mundane and boring because I’m not learning anything. I was probably quite OCD about cleaning before I was on my tablets though. I don’t know if I had it as such though because I didn’t repeat things I had already done. I was just particular and perfectionistic and anxious about things. Idk like worries that the gas cooker was on or something. I did check on the girls too much when they were sleeping as babies though which affected my own sleep so possibly then, but that’s probably a normal thing.
I had a fish in college and i asked a girl to feed it over winter break - when i came back she had poured a huge amount into the bowl over and over and over until there was an inch of swamp on the top of the cage - i still have no idea what she was thinking
@@WoodshedTheory Haha maybe she didn’t notice it building up and thought it was something else.
My alarm / ringtone is really annoying, but it also has a purpose. I’m pleased that I made it myself. It’s embarrassing when it goes off in public though. It is minor chord arpeggios in a highish octave and with an annoying timbre/tone so that I have to take action to turn it off. It probably does leave me a bit stressed after it goes off though. There was a neurologist who gave a talk at our uni before I started but it was filmed and he said that practicing anxiety helps you to over come anxiety/stress even better than breathing techniques because they are just bringing your heart rate down, but your brain never practices the stress with that so you still feel anxious the next time you do the thing that makes you feel anxious. I don’t think the practicing of stress works for my ringtone! It gets me every time. It would probably be better if I made a song I like into a ringtone, but hopefully I will learn these minor arpeggios for uni.
I swapped medication yesterday. I have put on a lot of weight with Sertraline. I fear I made the wrong choice with the new SSRI I asked to be put on. My friend has a best friend with diagnosed autism and she is on Fluxotine. I think I saw online that it might lead to less weight gain. But now I have swapped I saw it was in the same category for weight gain as Sertraline. I didn’t realise Fluxotine is another name for Prozac. Prozac is negatively portrayed in the media. My friend said it is addictive so I’m worried now. I wonder if my psychiatrist will let me try an A-typical SSRI instead. They have the lowest risk of weight gain apparently. I think I chose Fluxotine for the wrong reasons just because my friend’s friend takes it. I’m also thinking that my psychiatrist should have corrected me and told me about other medications and warned me that Fluxotine is addictive. I have made choices for medication based on what isn’t addictive and gradually stopped certain sleeping tablets because they were addictive. Surely they should make a list of the types of choices patients make and if they have an aversion to addictive ones then point that out and ask the patient if they are sure.
Hi I was on a high amount of sertaline when I first started - I switched but only cause they couldnt give me a higher dose. I would say it worked for me though. Meds are hard because it's really a case by case basis. - Oh wait now I am seeing you switched to prozac - that is what I switched to and it's been alright. I haven't found it addictive at all.
@@WoodshedTheory Thank you. So far I think I actually feel a bit better on the Prozac. Have you found it better than Sertraline?
@@originalvonster umm well when i am taking it consistently, i think so
I was asked to do a photobooth photoshoot Saturday. I stopped working because I just can’t deal with the anxiety of dealing with people. I got there and they didn’t have the props promised so I was so thrown! It went okish I got really overwhelmed after two hours. I’ve edited them and uploaded but have been suffering serious anxiety about it ever since. Talk about imposter syndrome…. I hate something I used to love doing so much causes me to crash so badly…. 😢 it’s my special interest, but now I can’t do anything without it causing me serious mental health issues 😢😢😢
Hi Zoe, I'm sorry you are going through this, I hope you can find joy in it again soon.
What is zucchini bread? Could you possibly share your recipe please?
It's similar idea to banana bread where the zucchini acts as the moisture. I will look for the recipe.
@@WoodshedTheory Thank you