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What did you do today that made you feel proud?

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AutismPosts · Today 00:01

Our fuse box went pop. Anything electrical scares me almost as much as Watership Down. Google wasn't any help. I had a ugly cry little sob in the understairs cupboard and considered whether we even needed electricity really. Then I got a grip, identified a blown light bulb caused it (I think?!), got the ladder (from the dark garden) and changed the bulb. I once lived with a hall with no light for years because I'd rather live in the dark than change a light bulb so this was no small thing for me. Then flipped the fuse box and everything worked again!

Obviously, I'm worried that I've somehow electrified the light switch. Obviously. Plus the ladder is still in the kitchen because I didnt want to go into the dark garden again.

But on a day where I was thinking I can't cope with everything being thrown at me, I'm actually very, very proud of myself. I'm sharing here because I can't tell anyone irl because it's just ridiculous that I feel like this over changing a light bulb and dealing with a fuse box (and dark garden).

So in the words of Heather Small, what have YOU done today to make you feel proud?

OP posts:
mumofoneAloneandwell · Today 00:07

Well done op - stuff like that scares me too - we're never too old to learn something new!

Mine is i got my autistic dd (7) interested in a book - one of those ones where you match the picture to the sound, on a board at the side

She understood what to do and happily did it with me for a good 10 mins before getting irritated 😄

She only usually accepts a book at bedtime, and its always the same Maisy ones, so this was nice.

NormasArse · Today 00:07

I didn’t strangle my coworker.

You should all be proud of me.

XenoBitch · Today 00:08

Finally went to one of my MH support groups after avoiding it for a few months.

Junehell · Today 00:30

Didn't eat an entire sharing bar of chocolate in one go like I usually do and instead saved the last bit for tomorrow 😂

IAmBeaIDrinkTea · Today 00:32

Forced myself off my arse and went to work even though I wanted to stay on the sofa scoffing crisps and watching Benidorm all afternoon. 😁

Thequeenofwishfulthinking · Today 00:57

Realised im not just disabled and sick frequently (complicated lifelong health issues) and I am still the same feisty lady as I always was despite this.

Spookyseason · Today 01:01

Stood up for myself with the Dr, after being fobbed off for months, and got a referal to a specialist clinic.

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